sunrpc patch that fixes nfs-server failure when reading files of specific sizes

[marco atzeri]

Il 11/4/2013 11:52 AM, George Prekas ha scritto:
> Nfs-server occasionally fails when serving files of specific sizes. The Linux client reports an input/output error and the user has to umount and mount the NFS share in order to continue using it.
>
> The problem happens when the file's size is: 8192*k + 3896 or 8192*k + 3896 + 3996 where k = 0,1,2,...
>
> Example file sizes are: 3896, 7892, 12088, 16084
>
> Sunrpc sends data in chunks and under some conditions it fails to recognize that it is sending the last chunk and does not set the corresponding flag (last fragment bit).
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> The procedure to apply the patch is the following:
> * Download source packages nfs-server and sunrpc.
> * Execute fix_xdrrec_putbytes.sh
>
> --
> George Prekas
> Dipl. Electrical and Computer Engineer, National Technical University of Athens
>

Hi George,
unfortunately the nfs-server is without a package maintainer
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint

Are you interested to take over ?
If so please look at
   http://cygwin.com/setup.html

Regards
MArco