[OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS client crashes on RHEL 5.10 and RHEL 6.5

[Renata Maria Dart]

Thanks Andrew...we'll see what we can find out.

Renata

On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Andrew Deason wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:19:22 -0700 (PDT)
>Renata Maria Dart <renata@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew, we opened a ticket with RedHat, but it is
>> not clear how to proceed....are you thinking that we 
>> should be asking them for a fix? 
>
>If you're concerned about this, the way I would frame the discussion
>with them is that you're asking if Red Hat can provide a workaround in
>their kernel. One possible way they can maybe achieve that is to remove
>the referenced change, since I am not really sure what this fixes (or
>what its motivation was):
>
>[RHEL5]
>> > - [fs] vfs: stop d_splice_alias creating directory aliases (J. Bruce Fields) [785916]
>[RHEL6]
>> > - [fs] vfs: stop d_splice_alias creating directory aliases (J. Bruce Fields) [820446]
>
>Alternatively, they can engage us in conversation about how OpenAFS can
>more easily avoid this. J. Bruce Fields is already discussing this a
>little on openafs-devel, so you could just point them at that or the
>referenced central.org RT ticket.
>
>-- 
>Andrew Deason
>adeason@sinenomine.net
>
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