Description of problem: Data Corruption on NFS4 mounted filesystems Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. start gimp and make a complex multi layer image 2. save as xcf 3. open the xcf 4. Gimp error: XCF: This file is corrupt! I have loaded as much of it as I can, but it is incomplete. Actual results: XCF: This file is corrupt! I have loaded as much of it as I can, but it is incomplete. Expected results: Gimp operating on the opened file Additional info: Known kernel bug: http://www.nabble.com/Not-saving-resolution-information---%22XCF:-This-file-is-corrupt!%22-t4760083.html http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9315
kernel-2.6.23.8-34.fc7 is in updates-testing with this fix applied. You can update with: # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel
Problem seems to be solved this way.
The bug title is slightly misleading; I'm seeing this with NFS v3 as well. It affects LightZone 2.4 for Linux when exporting TIFF files (the files are unreadable by libtiff-enabled applications due to "zero scanline size").
Any idea of how much longer this data-corruption problem explicitly fixed in the Fedora 8 kernel (on Nov 7), commonly exercised by backup programs (rsync -S) on commonly-used filesystem types (nfs) going to remain in the most up-to-date stable kernel available for Fedora 7?
2.6.23.8-34 is being released ASAP. It has been available in updates-testing for over a week...