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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:36:21 -0700
From: David Rees <dbr@greenhydrant.com>
To: "Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie@wookimus.net>
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Subject: Re: Problems with NFS between IRIX Server and Linux client
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:26:02AM -0500, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> OK.  Strange problem here with NFS that has been experienced on both
> Debian machines and Red Hat machines.  I believe the problem ties in
> to NFS support in the Linux kernel, but I could be entirely wrong.
> 
> Scenario: Serving a filesystem from IRIX 6.5 host.  Accessing it with
> a Linux 2.4.9 Debian Woody machine.  Directory content listings and
> directory info are not consistently reported to the client.
> 
> Symptoms: For directories with #files approx > 200, filename
> completion in bash does not work, many applications do not show files
> in the directory.

Known problem.  See the NFS patches here, specificall the seedir patch.

http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/

-Dave
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