From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:19:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:18:57 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:57839 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:18:40 -0400 To: Chris Wilson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS client woes [kernel 2.4.10] In-Reply-To: <20010928220342.A18562@florence.intimate.mysticnet.org.uk> From: Trond Myklebust Date: 30 Sep 2001 21:19:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: Chris Wilson's message of "Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:03:42 +0100" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> " " == Chris Wilson writes: > [Please CC me if you have any suggestions.] I'm a bit hazy on > the details, but the synopsis is: > NFSv3 filesystems, same problem when mounted from either an > IRIX 6.5.12m or Linux/i386 2.4.10 server. > 2.4.7: all files are visible all of the time. 2.4.10: some > files are invisible to some processes. > The processes that I have noticed to be affected are the likes > of netscape, all gtk applications and find; perl globbing and > its readdir function similarly miss files. OTOH, grep and ls > function fine. > I'm not certain [read: no idea] what the connection is between > the files that do disappear. It does not appear to be simply > inode related, but those modified by the Linux client do seem > more vulnerable. > Unfortunately, I only had time to switch back in an old kernel > and confirm the issue before leaving work. The diff inside > fs/nfs appeared small, but so do icebergs. ;) Known glibc bug. If you had trawled the archives a bit you would have found it. Set 32bitclients on the server and apply http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.10/linux-2.4.10-seekdir.dif Cheers, Trond