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

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

Hello Harald,

On Friday 05 July 2013 08:27:40 Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi Ulrich,
> 
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 21:24:08 +0100
> Ulrich Gemkow <ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Have you considered upgrading your Solaris version? I had tons 
> of problems with NFS on Solaris10u6 and 10u8, including unresponsive
> mount points, problems with delegations (esp. in the users' .ssh
> directories and .Xauthority files) and strange "permission 
> denied" error messages for some ACL feature I never configured on 
> the server. 
> 
> NFS in Solaris 10u10 works much better together with Linux. I
> haven't tried Solaris 11.

Thank you for your answer and your tip. For different reasond it
is difficult for us to update this machine.

In the time since my original post I found the reason for the
problem and a solution. I will explain this in a second mail
responding to Bruce which answered your mail yesterday.

Thanks again and best regards

Ulrich

> 
> My servers run Squeeze and the Linux kernel from the squeeze-
> backports repository (3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64).
> 
> > Maybe this can be fixed. I will be happy to give more info
> > if someone is interested.
> > 
> 
> That would be nice.
> 
> Good luck
> Harri
> 

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