Bug 15121

Summary: NFS Locking fails with large amounts of data
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <lawrence>
Component: nfs-utilsAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Version: 7.0CC: nahay
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tar file of test case, please read README file, modify Makefile macro and type make none

Description Need Real Name 2000-08-02 14:10:41 UTC 
Our application creates large binary files. To create these files we first create a zero length file
and lock it (fcntl(... SETLK)). Then we write a second data file. When the write is complete
we fsync the data file and then close both file descriptors. This should release the lock.
When a large amount of data is written quickly, the lock is not released (about 100 MB is enough).

I've generated this bug with the Linux box at kernel 2.2.12-20 and 2.2.12-32. I've used data servers
on Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.7 and HP-UX 11.00.

By the way, our Solaris boxes do have patch 105299-02 installed (sunsolve ID 4071076) so this is
not a repeat of that problem (thank you for referencing that in the other bug reports it did solve
another problem I was having).

Please contact me at lawrence and I will provide a full testcase via ftp.

Jay Lawrence
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2000-08-02 14:13:46 UTC 
Created attachment 1814 [details]
tar file of test case, please read README file, modify Makefile macro and type make
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2000-08-02 14:52:22 UTC 
Further testing has been done. If the remote directory is on HP 10.20 it also fails.

If the remote directory is on another Linux 2.2.12 machine or a Network Appliance
file server the problem does not occur. The NetApp might be an anomoly because it
is on a gigabit network and may be consuming the data VERY fast coming off my
100TX linux machines.
Comment 3 Cristian Gafton 2000-08-09 02:35:20 UTC 
assigned to johnsonm
Comment 4 Need Real Name 2000-08-09 11:35:04 UTC 
I tried to append this previously but it somehow disappeared....

A customer of mine had his remote file systems mounted with

         mount -o rw,nolock ....

In this configuration the problem did NOT occur.

In my opinion this is a crazy way to mount a file system since it bypassed NFS locking all together
and could lead to corruption problems, but it did serve to isolate the bug to NFS locking. With 'nolock'
the lock is maintained locally on the client and the problem did not occur.

Jay
Comment 5 Michael Nahay 2001-05-31 22:01:14 UTC 
Hello,
Has there been any progress on this issue?
Thanks,
Michael
Comment 6 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-31 22:04:43 UTC 
Could you try our 2.2.19 errata kernel? it has majorly revamped NFS code,
including NFSv3 support.