[linux-cifs-client] Re: CIFS-VFS error

[Shirish Pargaonkar]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:28:44 -0400
> Anirudh Srinivasan <srianirudh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok can you please tell me upgrading to what version of kernel will fix this
>> issue.
>
> No, because we don't know what the problem actually is. The problem
> could be that the server just plain isn't responding, or it could mean
> that there's a problem processing those replies. There are fixes for
> several problems of the latter variety that have gone into RHEL over
> the last 2 years.
>
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> Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
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Jeff,

How about a kernel that brings in 1.56 version of cifs?
I think that version of cifs has the socket error fixes (i.e. change
from non-blocking
to blocking), these errors in syslog are the same errors with
non-blocking sockets.

Regards,

Shirish