2.1.xxx and NFS server over TCP

Eugene Crosser (crosser@average.org)
9 Dec 1998 11:48:39 +0300

I did not try it with any NFS-related patchs, so the problem *may* have
been fixed already, but still. Knfsd tries to serve nfs over tcp
connections, and when one comes in, I see this in the syslog:

Dec 8 21:27:34 ariel kernel: svc: sk_data negative!
Dec 8 21:27:34 ariel kernel: RPC: bad TCP reclen 49432d43<4>nfsd: terminating on error 5

and the client does not see the directory. I know that the fix is to
use "proto=udp" on the client side, but it is not always possible. I
think that "nfs over tcp" option of knfsd should be disabled by default
(if it cannot be fixed) before 2.2.0 is released. Problem last seen in
2.1.131.

Eugene

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