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To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
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Subject: Re: NFS root: New error messages in latest bk
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Date: 10 Feb 2003 17:57:28 +0100
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>>>>> " " == Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> writes:

     > Latest bk 2.5; Just booted with NFS root and noticed these new
     > error messages in dmesg:

     > NFS: server cheating in read reply: count 4096 > recvd 1000
     > NFS: giant filename in readdir (len 0xcb2d2053)!

     > Anybody know what this means?

It means that the client can only see 1000 out of a promised 4096
bytes. Either the client or the server has a bug. A tcpdump should
sort it out.

Cheers,
  Trond
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