Re: wierdness with NFS in -current or RELENG_6 (?)

On Saturday 15 July 2006 16:15, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> server: FBSD RELENG_6 (within the last couple weeks), i386
>
> client: FBSD -current (yesterday) i386 [1] or either i386/amd64[2], or
> linux[3]
>
> 1. Mounted a directory from the server, not reserved port, otherwise
> default. A normal file on the server appeared, briefly, as an empty
> directory (!!!!).
>
> 2. The 'ro' qualifier in fstab seems to be being ignored.
>
> 3. Linux RHES4 cannot reliably mount NFS from the above server- one
> out of 3 times it hangs. It's usually convenient to blame Linux, but
> the problem goes away with combinations of restarting mountd or nfsd
> on the server.
>
> Anyone else with the same experiences?

I've had similar experiences but would also add:

4. Guest nfs client can no longer follow a symlink on the server that points 
to another folder within the same tree. That symlink now appears as an empty 
folder. It worked fine for years until recently. Solution is to create an 
export to the actual location.

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