Bug 825

Summary:	nfs writes files length 0
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	hydrastis
Component:	nfs-server	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2	CC:	hydrastis
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://x10.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=405840323&CONTEXT=916262522.1301610755&hitnum=2
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Description hydrastis 1999-01-13 21:27:46 UTC

I encountered a nasty bug in the nfsd shipped with rh5.2
(nfsd 2.2beta37).  I have freebsd clients that mount
filesystems from the nfs server(rh5.2).  a number of cron
jobs and cgis modify files on the nfs mount.  i discovered
that when a file was being written to, the length became 0.
On the server, the messages file would have something like:
nfsd[288]:strange write request from 24bits.interclick.com

I searched dejanews, and found that this bug is not unknown,
and a patch was posted on linux.debian.bugs.dist on 10/28.
i have put the url to the usenet article (as found on
dejanews) in the url field above.

hydrastis

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-01-13 23:15:59 UTC

Fixed in 5.2.2 nfs-server-2.2beta37-2. Thanks for the URL.