Re: NFS client woes [kernel 2.4.10]

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Chris Wilson <[e-mail]> 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