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SubjectRe: Kernel NFSd problems


On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Felix von Leitner wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> it seems that whenever I write to my Linux knfsd server from a Sun, the
> lockd dies and becomes a zombie and all NFS accesses become "Stale NFS
> handle"s.
>
> Besides, symlinks are not represented as symlinks but as the file being
> pointed to. This is rather awkward as it poses all kinds of unexpected
> problems. Can I switch this off?
>
> I'm using the 2.1.54+ SparcLinux kernel.

The kernel NFS server in recent kernels is seriously broken. If you are
not in development (or experimentation) mode, I'd suggest using the older
user mode NFS server.

Steve



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