#2 nfsd-attr
Description:
Fixes nfsd to return correct file attributes when NFS
exporting a GPFS filesystem that is mounted on more
than one node (multi-node mode).
Status:
Submitted to project
Notes:
Fixes nfsd to return correct file attributes when NFS
exporting a GPFS filesystem that is mounted on more
than one node (multi-node mode). The NFS server must
call GPFS with inode revalidate when processing a
GETATTR or LOOKUP requests to get correct file
attributes. Without this patch, nfsd will return stale
file attributes to NFS clients when a file is modified
on another node. This patch is no longer necessary with
RH Professional at kernel levels 2.4.20 and above, but
the patch is applicable to all other currently
supported kernel levels and distributions for GPFS; the
RedHat patches can currently be applied to the SuSE kernel.
2.4.9-34
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This patch is is only applicable to old RH Pro before 2.4.20
kernel level and SLES8 before SP3.
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The standard procedure that we employ for applying a kernel
patch is:
1. "cd" to the root of the kernel source directory
(eg, cd /usr/src/linux) and copy the patch to this
directory.
2. Apply the patch via the command
patch -p1 < patch-name.patch
3. Then build and install the patched kernel according
to the instructions provided by the Linux distribution.