Re: 2.1.46 and NFS directories (caching)

Joe Fouche (jf@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 08:03:06 -0700


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You wrote
> I wanted to give the 2.1 kernels a try.
>
> Is anyone using NFS with success?

I have with pre44; problems started sometime in the revisions before
.46.

> I tried to follow the "Changes" file but the nfs code didn't
> even complete the make but I've got most of the other "Changes" applied.

nfsd still doesn't compile. I'm not sure if it's anything more than changing it
to fit the semantics of the new dentry/inode/inode structures.

> If I mount an nfs file system (I can read existing files just fine)
> and create a new directory and cd to it, if I create a file
> e.g. date > foo
> and give the ls command, the file "foo" doesn't show up in the
> directory listing, but the command cat foo, reports the contents
> correctly.

That's it. We've also seen stale NFS file handle messages.

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