Re: NFS oddity (2.4.0test13pre4ac2 server, 2.0.36/2.2.14 clients)

From: Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Date: Fri Dec 29 2000 - 16:04:25 EST


On Friday December 29, gilbertd@treblig.org wrote:
> Hi,
> On the server:
>
> bash$ ls -l
> total 21
> drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 2048 Jul 23 02:32 arm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Aug 22 1999 dg ->
> /home/gilbertd
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Mar 21 1999 ftp
> drwx------ 5 g3oag g3oag 1024 Oct 3 1999 g3oag
> drwxr-xr-x 164 gilbertd gilbertd 12288 Dec 29 19:42 gilbertd
....
>
> on the client:
>
> [root@sol home]# ls -l
> ls: gilbertd: No such file or directory
> total 9
> drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 2048 Jul 23 02:32 arm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Aug 22 1999 dg -> /home/gilbertd
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Mar 21 1999 ftp
> drwx------ 5 1000 1000 1024 Oct 3 1999 g3oag
....
> -------------------------
>
> So where did the gilbertd directory go ?

Is there any chance that /home/gilbertd is a mount point?
Can you show us your /etc/exports, just incase there is something
significant there?
Can you get a tcpdump (-s 1024) of the network traffic while this is
happening?

NeilBrown
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