Subject: Re: Irix NFS servers, again :-)
From: Peter Wainwright <prw@ceiriog1.demon.co.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:44, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Peter Wainwright wrote:
> > I just upgraded one of my machines to Fedora Core 2, including
> > kernel 2.6.5. I found myself bitten on the bum by a bug I thought
> > had expired long ago, namely the Irix server readdir bug, or
> > 32/64-bit cookie problem.
> > 
> > Therefore, I thought I should let you folks know that this problem
> > is still there, apparently.
> 
> IIRC this was fixed on the IRIX side a while ago.  What IRIX version
> do you run?
> 

Not very old, it's 6.5.21. And I do have -32bitclients
in my /etc/exports.

BTW, I just found an old patch I made for glibc 2.2 to
fix this (or a similar) problem. Maybe that's a better
place for a fix

Peter Wainwright
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