Re: [NFS] nfsd closes port 2049

[Andrea Righi <righiandr@users.sourceforge.net>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday October 15, a.righi@cineca.it wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to debug a weird problem with nfsd on a 2.6.16.27-0.6-smp
>> kernel.
>>
>> 1 server: SuSE SLES 10 x86_64, config attached
>> 256 clients: RHEL4 Update 4 2.6.9-42.ELsmp x86_64
>>
>> Using nfs v3.
>>
>> The clients have been happily talking to the server for several days
>> without incident.
>>
>> The weird thing is that at a certain point the socket opened on port
>> 2049 on the NFS server is being closed for unknown reasons (or better
>> for unknown reasons for me!).
> 
> This is fixed in any release based on 2.6.16.31 or later.
> The relevant mainline patch is 
>     1a047060a99f274a7c52cfea8159e4142a14b8a7
> as below.
> So update your kernel package.

Thanks Neil, looking at the source and in my logs this seems to explain
perfectly my problem. I'll try the patch ASAP.

-Andrea
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