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

[Andrew Deason]

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