NFS problem in the latest kernel (Was: [CentOS] MySQL issues with kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm)

[Akemi Yagi]

On Feb 1, 2008 12:42 AM, Bent Terp <bent at nagstrup.dk> wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008 6:21 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This problem does not seem to be associated with specific hardware as
> > implied in the original thread.
>
> I did not intend to imply any such thing, at least not as far as the
> client is concerned, we've verified this on different hardware from
> different suppliers.
>
> To me, this is an inter-op issue with the new kernel and EMC's celerra
> NFS server, and am currently working it together with EMC tech support
> - obviously it may affect other nfs servers as well; we can only test
> against what we have.

A test kernel with a patch that seemingly fixes the issue (at least in
my test run) has been made available.  The details are in the upstream
bugzilla filed by Johnny:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431092  (Comment #30)

It would be great if other people give it a try and report the result
to that bugzilla.

Akemi