Bug 103013 - getxattr on a file mounted over NFS returns EIO, what is fatal e.g. for cp -p
Summary: getxattr on a file mounted over NFS returns EIO, what is fatal e.g. for cp -p
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Steve Dickson
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-08-25 14:38 UTC by Albert Fluegel
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-09-16 14:02:26 UTC
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Description Albert Fluegel 2003-08-25 14:38:30 UTC 
Description of problem:
getxattr on an NFS File (on Net-App, on a Sun-NFS Server it seems to
work) returns EIO, thus cp -p filea fileb  prints error and aborts.
With kernel 2.4.21-1.1931.2.389 cp -p had no problem, there getxattr
syscall returns not implemented, what seems to be ignored by /bin/cp.
On 2.4.21-1.1931.2.399 it seems to be partially implemented, what seems
to be bad over NFS.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.21-1.1931.2.389

How reproducible:
On an NFS-Mounted Filesystem on a Net-App
e.g. some /home/xy

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /home/xy
2. touch a
3. cp -a b
    
Actual results:
prompt# cp -p a b
cp: `a': Input/output error


Expected results:
no error


Additional info:
Tried on i686, x86_64 and ia64
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2003-08-25 14:42:54 UTC 
Steve: didn't we fix this last week ?
Comment 2 Steve Dickson 2003-08-26 01:49:35 UTC 
Yes... I believe this is fixed in the latest version of taroon
Comment 3 Roland Dreier 2003-09-15 00:03:30 UTC 
This is still a problem, at least with Taroon Beta 2 on IA64.  I am NFS mounting
a directory exported from a Linux 2.4.19/i386 server, and I get:

$ uname -a
Linux tiger-1.topspincom.com 2.4.21-1.1931.2.399.ent #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 15:23:44
EDT 2003 ia64 ia64 ia64 GNU/Linux
$ touch a
$ strace -egetxattr cp -a a b
getxattr("a", "system.posix_acl_access", 0x60000fffffffac80, 132) = -1 EIO
(Input/output error)
cp: `a': Input/output error

With Taroon Beta 2 on x86_64, getxattr() gives ENOSYS and cp works fine:

$ uname -a
Linux swopteron2 2.4.21-1.1931.2.393.entsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 13 21:26:37 EDT 2003
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ touch a
$ strace -egetxattr cp -a a b
getxattr("a", "system.posix_acl_access", 0x7fbfffee20, 132) = -1 ENOSYS
(Function not implemented)
Comment 4 Steve Dickson 2003-09-16 14:02:26 UTC 
This seem to be fixed "again" with latest taroon kernel....

Linux celestica1.boston.redhat.com 2.4.21-1.1931.2.434.ent #1 SMP Tue Sep 16
03:49:44 EDT 2003 ia64 ia64 ia64 GNU/Linux
Comment 5 Roland Dreier 2003-09-16 14:21:30 UTC 
My apologies.  RHN does not show any errata for Taroon beta 2 (Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 AS Beta 2 (ia64)), which is why I thought my Taroon beta 2
install was up to date.  However if I go to packages and look up kernel, I can
see that kernel-2.4.21-1.1931.2.423.ent is actually available.  This .423 kernel
does indeed fix the problem.
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