2.0.29 and NFS

Carl Kumaradas (ckumarad@oci.utoronto.ca)
20 Feb 1997 00:07:07 -0500

I keep getting intermittent NFS problems on two SGI IRIX 5.3 machines
when accessing NFS drives served from the linux box (with both 2.0.28
and 2.0.29). When compiling some programs, ld sometimes fails with a
'cannot create output file' message. The executable file does not
show up on the IRIX machine, but shows up as a 0 sized file when
viewed directly from the linux machine. Doing an 'rm -rf' on the
directory with this file fails on the IRIX machine (never returns to
the system prompt), and works fine on the Linux machine.

Doing the same thing from a Solaris 2.4 machine which has the NFS
drive mounted from the linux machine works fine as well. I know this
is a Linux problem because if I do the same thing on one of the IRIX
machines on a NFS drive served by the other IRIX machine, things work
fine.

This occurs with nfs-server-2.2beta(16|26).

Any ideas as to what the problem may be?

Thanks,
Carl.

-- 
J. Carl Kumaradas                           Ontario Cancer Institute
ckumarad@oci.utoronto.ca                    University of Toronto