Re: NFS regression in 2.6

[Andries Brouwer]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:13:21AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> This is a problem which pops up in the glibc test suite.  It's been like
> this for many weeks, even months.  I just hadn't time to investigate.
> But the problem is actually very easy.
> 
> Go into a directory mounted via NFS.  You need write access.  Then
> execute this little program:
> 
> The result is always, 100% of the time, a failure in ftruncate.  The
> kernel reports ESTALE.  This has not been a problem in 2.4 and not even
> in 2.6 until <mumble> months ago.  And of course it works with local disks.

I just tried NFS client 2.6.0-test3, NFS server 2.0.34, try test on client.
No problems. ftruncate did not fail.

(Do you require some NFS version?)

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