Bug#508866: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: NFS going stale for stat() for renamed files like .Xauthority
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:03:39PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
> > Version: 2.6.26-10
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Identical to ubuntu bug 269954:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269954
...
> > The ubuntu bug says that this started in 2.6.24, and still exists (in
> > somewhat mitigated form) in 2.6.27. I haven't tried mainline kernels
> > yet because this is a production box, although this thread doesn't
> > give me much encouragement that Trond has even been able to reproduce
> > the bug: http://marc.info/?t=121316971700004&r=1&w=2
>
> Given that this is a longstanding problem and subtle to catch I'd
> suggest to try to reproduce this with 2.6.28 and to open a bugreport
> at bugzilla.kernel.org if it can be reproduced with 2.6.28. This way
> all information on this issue is collected in a single place and easier
> to track for the NFS developers.
Took a while, but still happens in 2.6.28:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557
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TimC
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