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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Dave Gilbert <gilbertd@treblig.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 08:04:25 +1100 (EST)
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Subject: Re: NFS oddity (2.4.0test13pre4ac2 server, 2.0.36/2.2.14 clients)
In-Reply-To: message from Dave Gilbert on Friday December 29
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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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