Re: nfs problem: hp|aix-server --- linux 2.4.15pre5 client

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron-office.nl)
Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:01:06 +0000 (UTC)


In article <15348.64613.465429.628445@charged.uio.no>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
>>>>>> " " == Birger Lammering <b.lammering@science-computing.de> writes:
>
> > not reproduce the Ooops with the HP nfs server. But still: The
> > Kernel complains about: "NFS: short packet in readdir reply!"
>
>That's because the HP is returning a READDIR reply that is larger than
>the buffer size we specified. When this happens, we truncate the reply
>at the last valid record before the buffer overflow, and print out the
>above message.

Shouldn't the message then be "NFS: too large packet in readdir reply!" ?

Mike.

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