Re: kernel nfsd

[Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:41:06 +0100
Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:28:25 +0100
> Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 19:07:33 +0300
> > Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:42:04PM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > The comment in the code just above the printk() reads
> > > > >                 /* Now that IS odd.  I wonder what it means... */
> > > > > Looks like you and Neil (and possibly the ReiserFS team) might want to
> > > > > have a chat...
> > > > I'm all for it. Who has a glue? I have in fact tons of these messages, it's
> > > > a pretty large nfs server.
> > > 
> > > What is the typical usage pattern for files whose names are printed?
> > > Are they created/deleted often by multiple clients/processes by any chance?
> > 
> > This is a nfs-server who serves web-servers (apache). I find a lot of these
> > messages, but they (upto now) only point to 3 different filenames. And these
> > are in fact all directories. The box never crashed and has currently 20 days
> > uptime. It is dual P-III and has 6 GB of RAM.
> > The questionable directories were created long before they first showed this
> > message and have never changed (regarding name-change). Their contents were
> > possible changed but surely not often meaning no more than once a day or once a
> > week.
> > It may well occur that multiple nfs-client systems _read_ them, as well as
> > multiple processes on one client.
> > The nfs-clients are 2.4.19 boxes and one 2.2.21.
> 
> And one addition:
> They are all second level, meaning look like:

Please ignore this rather silly comment. One should read code before commenting ;-)

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Regards,
Stephan