""We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system […] A higgs-bugson is a bug that is reported in practice but difficult to reproduce, […]

The Linux kernel does not actually implement this cache as suggested by the RFC, so I wrote a kernel patch to add this functionality and mailed it off upstream. I also learned that the FreeBSD kernel actually already implements this, so this is new-to-Linux but not new-to-NFS.

[…]

Both of these patches are now upstream and will be available in Linux 6.16.""

https://blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugson-in-the-linux-kernel/

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A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel

We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, calle...

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@kernellogger Why are they still using NFSv3 and I hope this is also fixed in NFSv4!