Re: 2.1.128 NFS client broken with rsize and wsize = 1024

Matthias Welwarsky (matze@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:05:09 +0100

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> David Miller just found a really stupid little bug in the read side of the
> new NFS code, and that's almost certainly the reason why rsize < PAGE_SIZE
> failed for people. I had been looking at the write-side changes (those
> were the really fundamental ones), and had missed a stupid small buglet in
> the trivial read-side changes. Thanks, davem.
>
> Anyway, forget the shortlived pre-3, and upgrade directly to pre-4 that
> should not only compile cleanly (knock wood ;), but should have the NFS
> lockup with small rsize's fixed.
>
> Linus

Hello all,

Indeed, pre-4 does the nfs trick quite fine and compiles cleanly for me.

Gruss,
Matthias

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