2. try: nfsd send error -1

[Lowell Gilbert]

Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>Aug 17 12:15:11 antsrv1 kernel: nfsd send error -1
> >>Aug 17 12:15:11 antsrv1 last message repeated 8 times
> >>
> >>I got several of theese errors in my /var/log/messages. Can someone
> >>tell me what this means?
> > 
> > 
> > The socket send syscall got interrupted (by a signal, maybe?).  It
> > should be restartable, but I don't see whether it gets handled, so
> > apparently the kernel just ignores it.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your reply, Lowell.
> Can this cause data loss when transferring a file via nfs?

I don't think so.  RPC isn't exactly my area, but looking over the
server socket code in a bit more depth than the first time, I would
expect that the NFS client would either notice the drop or hang.