Re: NFS problem 2.1.131

Christian Groessler (cpg@aladdin.de)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:15:37 +0100


On 12/16/98 7:20:06 AM Simon Kirby wrote:
>
>On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Christian Groessler wrote:
>
>> [/mnt/chris]$ ./xmame.x11
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>...
>> So I'm able to run this file from a local filesystem, but
>> it segfaults when started from nfs....
>
>Upgrade mount. :)

Thanks, that does the trick.

>(I don't know why.)

That's what I found out:
I think the old mount did set the wrong blocksize (s_blocksize), too big.
So mmaping() some segments of the executable failed.
(see generic_file_mmap() in mm/filemap.c).

regards,
chris

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