Re: Dear RedHat-XFS developers,

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Seung-young Oh wrote:

> I think you're talking about;
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-129.html
> 
> , which the RedHat-XFS test versions are based on. But I was talking 
> about newer 2.4.9;
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-142.html

This would be because of the "syncookie incident".

You can work around this by disabling syncookies in /etc/sysctl.conf. It
is off by default on redhat. You have to enable it specifically.