Excerpts from Andrew Pollock's message of Sun Nov 20 06:05:54 +0100 2011: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:18:11PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > > > > This patch relies on kernel cache to hold the "ifconfig" and "route" > > binaries while the network is down and on the network filesystem driver > > to retry any transactions that might get lost while networking is > > reenacted by dhclient. > > So if I'm reading your patch correctly, it looks like just the act of doing > an ifconfig up of an already up interface is enough to cause an NFS-mounted > root filesystem to lose the plot? No. The script does "ifconfig $interface inet 0 up" which clears the internet address in the interface which obviously does break networking. > > Unfortunately since you wrote your patch, we've gone and changed > dhclient-script to use iproute2 instead of ifconfig and friends, so I'd like > to know if the "ip link set dev blah up" we're now doing in place of the > ifconfig call also causes the problem. So long as it merely brings up the interface but does not change the address it should not cause problems. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
