RHEL NFS client returns NULL bytes when reading a growing file

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Issue

  • Since upgrading from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5u3, under high NFS load, the java application reading and writing to the NFS volumes will occasionally read NULL bytes from a file even though none exist.
  • This is similar to a previously reported and fixed Bug 429755. But the current issue is reported against a more recent kernel.
  • One of our developers noticed that sometimes log files on NFS shares contain NULL bytes when they shouldn't.
  • There is a kernel invalidation issue fixed in the kernels newer than 2.6.18-164.4.1 (Bug 511170), but upgrading past this kernel did not resolve the issue.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (NFS client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (NFS client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (NFS client)
  • NFS v3 with mount options including noac

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