From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 5 14:56:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1923D1065670 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 14:56:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from esa-annu.mail.uoguelph.ca (esa-annu.mail.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE4B8FC14 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 14:56:19 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAGYj4UuDaFvG/2dsb2JhbACdRnG+D4UTBI8/ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,333,1270440000"; d="scan'208";a="75461695" Received: from amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca ([131.104.91.198]) by esa-annu-pri.mail.uoguelph.ca with ESMTP; 05 May 2010 10:56:17 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AF82101F3; Wed, 5 May 2010 10:56:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca Received: from amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TcbASlkF+xcw; Wed, 5 May 2010 10:56:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.102]) by amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D482101F1; Wed, 5 May 2010 10:56:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (rmacklem@localhost) by muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id o45FB0n18071; Wed, 5 May 2010 11:11:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca: rmacklem owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 11:11:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem X-X-Sender: rmacklem@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca To: Cheng-Lin Yang In-Reply-To: <1273026479.56161.yuwen@exodus.cs.ccu.edu.tw> Message-ID: References: <1272960060.34062.yuwen@exodus.cs.ccu.edu.tw> <4BDFE843.7050600@fuujingroup.com> <1273022040.28218.yuwen@exodus.cs.ccu.edu.tw> <20100505013136.GA48843@icarus.home.lan> <1273026479.56161.yuwen@exodus.cs.ccu.edu.tw> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-fs , lab Subject: Re: Struggling on NFS problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 14:56:20 -0000 On Wed, 5 May 2010, Cheng-Lin Yang wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > I certainly will, it seems to upgrading to RELENG_8 will be a highly possible solution for the issue. Therefore, I already scheduled a upgrade window on this Friday night and will keep updating you guys the result once the upgrade is done. > > I would also like to know that is it ok to update the source up to RELENG_8 by applying all NFS patches at the same time? Since it's a production machine, I have to make sure these two steps can be perform at the same time without any concern. > The patches at people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem are already in stable/8, so you shouldn't need to apply them. > Finally, just curious that why the problem only shows up on FreeBSD clients? > If it is the case where the server doesn't return ESTALE when a file has been deleted on the server, the FreeBSD client will loop retrying the RPC for EIO, but other clients might not. That is the only case where I can suggest there is a difference, other than the type of traffic and load different clients will generate. rick