Re: [NFS] NFS Insanity, v2

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:36:37 +0200


>>>>> " " == Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@async.com.br> writes:

> On 23 Jun 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> Is libgkcontents.so in use on the client? If so it's a known
>> problem: mmap() screws up the page cache invalidation routine
>> invalidate_inode_page(). If you do the untar on the client,
>> then all will be fine...

> Hah! Yeah, you're right; both times it happened because mozilla
> was running at the time. I can't have it untarred on the client
> because the client isn't on every day. It's a minor nuisance
> now that I've understood it.

> Is there a fix in the works for this?

There are workarounds, but Linus isn't particular happy with
them. It's therefore unfortunately still work in progress...

Cheers,
Trond
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