Re: Linux 2.4 NFS bug (annoying sylmlinx breakage)

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:12:09 -0700


On Jan 14, 2002 14:50 -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> I've noticed this bug before. Between two hosts on a 100Mbps switched lan,
> symlinks are trashed into garbage. Based on the output. I'm guessing a
> string loses its null somewhere.
>
> Client is 2.4.14. Server is 2.4.10. Server has RAID 5 IDE softraid and
> an hpt370 driver patch provided by Tim Hockin to fix the deadlocks and
> oopsies of the hpt366 driver on my hpt370.

Upgrade your kernel before reporting such bugs. I'm pretty sure it has
already been fixed. Something about the NFSv3 calling an inappropriate
(but similarly named) function in the symlink path.

Cheers, Andreas

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