Hello!
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 07:45:34PM +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > > I think may be race with iget4 might cause this, but I am not sure.
> > > > We have a patch for this iget4 race, and if you are willing to test it, I
> > > > can send it to you.
> > > Yes of course I am. I hope the other admins won't kill me, but I guess they
> > > know that I willing to do experiments from time to time ;-)
> > > Could something worse happen when I try the patch, that could not be fixed by
> > > simple rebooting ?
> > See the patch below.
> > It should not break anything.
> Well, we keep getting this error in massess too... and in our case it is
> very likely that clients access the same file from all the clients...
Are all of your NFS exports where these errors happens reiserfs?
> However I cannot quickly test that atm but if it is really safe I might
> test it next week.
Well, there is a problem reported with that 2.4.20 backport, that I am going to look
into.
If you can try 2.4.21-pre6 with iget5_locked.diff (I just sent to the list in this same
thread) that would be great.
Thank you.
Bye,
Oleg
