Re: NFS problems linux <--> RS6000

Olaf Kirch (okir@monad.swb.de)
Sat, 19 Oct 1996 04:00:46 +0200


Herbert Rosmanith (herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at) wrote:
: when proceeding, we get error messages for all symbolic-links,
: like this:
:
: a /ns1/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.5 23 blocks
: tar: /ns1/lib/libm.so.5: symbolic link too long

The linux nfsd used to return a size value of 1024 for all symlinks.
This has been corrected in the last few versions (available from
ftp.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/okir).

Olaf

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