Re: First impressions with 1.3.68

Peter Jones (thanatos@drealm.org)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:53:15 +0000

Joshua M. Thompson wrote:
>
> Ok, 1.3.68 seems to be running great for me now...no more machines grinding
> to a halt from dead sockets building up, and no sockets stuck in the CLOSE
> state. What I _have_ found, however, is a possible NFS glitch. It only
> happened once, and I'm not sure what circumstances triggered it, but here
> it is:
>
> I created a new user account on the server (home directories are NFS
> mounted to a shell machine running Linux). On the Linux box, the newly
> created home directory showed up, but any attempts to use it (as root or as
> the owner) resulted in "Not a directory" errors. Doing an "ls -dl" on it
> showed it to indeed be a directory, with the correct owner and group and
> permissions, but I simply couldn't accesss it! Finally I just rm'd the
> whole thing and recreated it, and all was well. Could this be a problem
> with the new NFS caching?
>
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I had put this down to a general weirdity...

My machine is our "bleeding edge" test box, networked to our "bread and butter" 1.2.13 kernel machine. I
sometimes edit remote files via NFS (in fact, this is my prefered way of working, when I remember I can...
:-)) ). However, just after installing 1.3.68, I got _very_ confused: I'd updated a file via NFS and went
to compile it on a local login. The changes I'd just made hadn't appeared. I edited the file locally, and
no, the changes were not there...

I did see Linus ask for reports on NFS weirdness, but I wasn't sure I hadn't done something stupid. I've
not noticed anything since...

I also access News via NNTP (Netscape 2.0) from my box to the 1.2.13 system. That's not shown any
problems.

-- Peter

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