Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> >>>>> " " == Marcelo E Magallon <marcelo.magallon@bigfoot.com> writes:
>
> > --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > Content-Disposition: inline
>
> >>> Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> writes:
>
> >> Does IRIX or Sun have a problem when using NFSv2?
>
> > Hmmm... on the bug database from IRIX I see:
>
> > * RFE: NFS2 cookie 0xffffffff confuses non-SGI implimentations
> > [1]
>
> > Other than that, I can't find anything relevant.
>
> >> Also, it would be helpful if you could provide the same strace
> >> as above, but using the '-v' flag, so that we can see the
> >> cookie values returned by the server.
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> {d_ino=9016561, d_off=473709853, d_reclen=44, d_name="9\46308814.179258_73.reggae:2,S"}
> {d_ino=9032566, d_off=473709853, d_reclen=44, d\_name="946308812.179258_42.reggae:2,S"}
>
> Note the 2 different and successive entries that have the same cookie
> (d_off). That is why you're seeing looping.
>
> Does IRIX and/or the Sun client see the same cookies for these 2
> entries? Please check using NFSv2 (not NFSv3).
>
> I suspect that the problem is a truncation error: IRIX uses 64-bit
> cookies doesn't it? On NFSv2, you can only pass 32-bit cookies, hence
> what is probably going on is that the hashing routine used by the
> server is generating 2 identical cookies.
Irix uses 64 bit cookies unles you add 32bitclients to the export
options on the server.
Steve Lord
>
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