Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:17:59 +0100 | From | James Pearson <> | Subject | Re: NFS client problem with kernel 2.6 and SGI IRIX 6.5 |
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> The summary is as follows: I do have problems with the 2.6 series > kernel, which do not occur with a 2.4 series kernel (and an other- > wise unchanged system). I discovered it with Mathematica version 5.0, > but do think that other programs are also involved (e.g. OpenOffice > 1.1.4, that doesn't find its default (or any other) printer any > longer). The symptom is, that certain ressources are reported > missing, that are definitively there and which lie somewhere > within the application-tree, that tree lying within a hierarchie > being nfs-auto-mounted from the SGI system to the (Intel architec- > ture) Linux client. File contents (or whole files?) seems to get > 'lost' somehow. > > It doesn't seem to be the MSBit Problem of the 32bit nfs cookies > (alone) - the branch is exported with the IRIX '32bitclients' > option, to avoid the 64bit cookies, that led to a similar problem > with the printer in OpenOffice under the 2.4 series kernels, and > vanished with the 32bit-option. The reason for me to state this > is, that when I applied a 32bit-'SGI-IRIX-induced'-patch for (early) > 2.6 kernels (Debians 2.6.8) the problem didn't go away, and it also > still occurs when using the 2.6.12-kernel, where some kernel-version > ago (2.6.10 or 11?) that part of the cookie problem was solved via a > translation table (once and for all, I hope). > > The problem occurs when requesting nfs v2 as well as nfs v3 protocol. > An LD_ASSUME_KERNEL does not seem to help, as it does with other > problems. > > When testing or compiling kernels, I always used the 'debianized' > versions, but to my understanding, they are nearly unaltered compared > to the 'plain' kernels (see Debian changelogs). > > The problem is severe to us, as the same configuration also exports > our home-directories, which are, of course, writeable, contrary to > the application-tree, which is read-only. Thus any help will be > welcome. > > I'm willing to try whatever I can do to resolve the problem, but I > need guidance in what to do and what (else) you need to know.
Is this similar to the issue in the following thread? :
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108741268200839&w=2
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