Re: NFS problem with 2.1.84

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Mon, 02 Feb 1998 12:47:34 -0500

Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> I'm noticing an NFS problem with 2.1.84. Here's the symptom:
>
> > ls -l abc
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 cgf group 0 Feb 02 11:50 abc
> > echo hello > abc
> > ls -l abc
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 cgf group 6 Feb 02 11:50 abc
> > cat abc
> > ls -l abc
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 cgf group 0 Feb 02 11:50 abc
>
> I am only noticing this problem with a directory that is mounted from
> an old AT&T System V system. The directory is mounted with hard,intr
> options.

Hmm, puzzling behavior. Could you try turning on nfs debugging with a

echo 65535 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/nfs_debug

and then rerun the sequence of commands. That may show something about the
problem.

Is this of recent origin, or did previous 2.1.xx kernels show the same behavior?

Regards,
Bill