Re: NFS still flakely in 1.3.71
Linus Torvalds (Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:29:22 +0200
"Joshua M. Thompson": "NFS still flakely in 1.3.71" (Mar 6, 13:33):
> I can consistantly reproduce this NFS bug, which still exists as of
> 1.3.71:
>
> Go to an NFS mounted directory
> Make a directory
> cd into that directory
> Try to 'ls' (you'll get a message saying that "." is not a directory)
> Try to 'cd ..' (you'll get a message saying taht ".." is not a directory)
> cd back to the orignal NFS mounted directory
> Try to 'ls' (this will work)
> 'rmdir' the directory you made (this will also work)
>
> Consistantly repeatable. I've been trying this both as root and as my
> "mere mortal" account in my own directory, and it happens the same way
> every time.
Hmm, interesting. I am not able to repeat it, but there may be server
differences. We have a linux NFS server here (with a rather recent and
patched NFS deamon: the "standard" linux NFS deamon has some problems).
What kind of setup is your server?
Linus