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Heads up: anti-Flag Day for clients of x86 NFS servers

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:19:58 -0600
From: David Robinson <David dot Robinson at sun dot com>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads up: anti-Flag Day for clients of x86 NFS servers

On Nov 4'th we had a flag day for NFS clients getting
stale mounts, requiring client reboots, when servers upgraded
to builds that had the fixes for:

    6337437 .zfs doesn't work over NFS
    6345690 nfsv4-test panics: assertion failed: ((((nfs_fh4_fmt_t 
*)(&cs->fh)...

With the putback of:

     6351165 Off by one word in xdr_decode_nfs_fh4

All the stale problems go away.

The server will now respond gracefully to any past filehandles
that it sent out (before or after any of these fixes) in a way
that all clients should be able to automatically handle
without any more reboots.

Sorry for any problems this may have caused.

	-David