Re: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number mismatch

From: Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 04:30:34 EST


>>>>> " " == Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:

> Scott A McConnell writes:
>> I am running RedHat Linux version 2.2.16-3 on my PC and Hardhat
>> Linux version 2.4.0-test5 on my MIPS board. Any thoughts or
>> suggestions?
>>
>> I saw a discussion start on the ARM list along these lines but
>> I never saw a solution.

> The problem is partly caused by the NFS server indefinitely
> caching NFS request XIDs to responses, and the NFS client not
> having a way to generate a random initial XID. (thus, for each
> reboot, it starts at the same XID number).

That shouldn't be true in the latest kernels. knfsd should normally
cache requests for no longer than 2 minutes with the changes made by
Neil following your bugreport.

Cheers,
   Trond
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