write error with krb5p

[Kumar V Thangavelu]

On 3/10/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields at fieldses.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:32:28PM -0500, Kumar V Thangavelu wrote:
> > I am trying to setup nfs with krb5p support and ran into a bug which
> > seems related to the post "read error with krb5p".
> > http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/nfsv4/2007-February/005722.html
> >
> > On the client, it is not possible to write files of size less than 4
> > bytes when using sec=krb5p.  Atempting to write a file of less than 4
> > bytes in the client results in a zero length file. Is this a known
> > issue? Please let me know if there is a patch available? I also see
> > the read problem mentioned in the earlier post "read error with
> > krb5p".
>
> Yes, it's a known problem.  No, no patch available yet, apologies.  Any
> write of 1, 2, or 3 bytes at a page-aligned offset fails.  Also
> reproduced against a netapp server, so it's probably the client that's
> at fault.  A git bisect suggests that this started happening after
> 5c64097aa0f6dc4f27718ef47ca9a12538d62860, but I don't understand that
> commit yet.
>
> --b.
>

I don't see this error after applying the latest patch from
2.6.21-rc4-CITI_NFS4_ALL-1. Thanks!