Re: NFS still flakely in 1.3.71

Michael Smith (mjs@cursci.co.uk)
Fri, 08 Mar 1996 10:07:23 +0000


> >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.

Yes, I don't know if this is related but some applications I have hang
on sun when accessing the linux disk over NFS. Looking in the directory
concerned there is a .nfs file which can not be removed:

50 celebes .../temp% cd ../test
51 celebes .../test% ls -a
. .. .nfs7EEC
52 celebes .../test% rm .nfs7EEC
rm: remove .nfs7EEC (y/n)? y
53 celebes .../test% ls -a
. .. .nfs8EEC
etc

--Mike

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