Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263541AbUJ3E64 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:58:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263543AbUJ3E64 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:58:56 -0400 Received: from [82.154.232.115] ([82.154.232.115]:3754 "EHLO puma-vgertech.no-ip.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263541AbUJ3E6z (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:58:55 -0400 Message-ID: <41831F8D.5000606@vgertech.com> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 05:58:53 +0100 From: Nuno Silva User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040926) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paulo da Silva Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: K 2.6.9 - NFS: lstat causes "permission errors" References: <418294CD.8000507@esoterica.pt> <4182FED2.8010000@esoterica.pt> In-Reply-To: <4182FED2.8010000@esoterica.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 25 Ol? Paulo, Paulo da Silva wrote: > Paulo da Silva wrote: > >> I am getting several "permission errors" when using >> "lstat". So far I only found this on Directories. >> I changed a program to retry the "lstat" whenever >> a "permission error" occurs and it works successfully. >> > I'm also getting "Stale NFS file handle" error when "lstat" and > "read" a file. This seems to happen only on a VFAT filesystem > but I am not sure. Are you exporting a FAT fs with NFS? It's expected to break in some situations. Read http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/server.html Regards, Nuno Silva - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/