Re: Linux 3.7 + Sun solaris 10: Problems when reading dir from application

[Ulrich Gemkow <ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Hello,

please allow a followup of my own on this:

On Monday 04 February 2013 11:12:03 Ulrich Gemkow wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we upgraded our fileserver from Linux 3.2 to linux 3.7.6 and now have
> problems when accessing our nfs-mounted user homes from some sun-
> applications (i.e. Adobe Framemaker):
> 
> In the applications file open box, no files are displayed. When entering
> the filename by path, the file can be opened. So it seems some kind of
> dir enumeration which is used by the sun applications is broken.
> 
> Other programs on the sun like ls work as before and show all files.
> 
> We are using NFSv3 (and cannot switch to v4). Our sun is a very old
> machine running Sun Solaris 10.

When mounting with vers=2 on the sun (using NFSv2) the files
"reappear", so this is a clear regression in NFSv3 between
Linux 3.2 and Linux 3.7.

Maybe this can be fixed. I will be happy to give more info
if someone is interested.

Best regards

Ulrich

> 
> Is there any help?
> 
> Thanks and best regards
> 
> Ulrich
> 


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