Bug 125627
| Summary: | Directory listing erratic on NFS mounted volumes | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Frank Bures <fbures> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Steve Dickson <steved> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | fbures |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-04-16 04:39:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I tested the bug on a completely different HW (Pentium 4 as opposed to Athlon, single CPU as opposed to SMP). It behaves exactly the same. I also tried to downgrade autofs, nfs-utils and initscripts to versions from FC1 that is known to work. No effect. Is the IRIX fs being exported with -32bitclients? If on could you export with 32bitclients set? Also what are the rest of the export and mount options? the -32bitclients option is there, and has been there for a long time (several years, in fact). We put it there when we had a similar problem with one of the RedHat versions. I do not remember which one, though. The problem was that sometimes NFS mounted volumes could not be listed globally - not even from a shell. BTW, the FC2 on an x86_64 machine (Dual Opteron) works OK. As to the mount options, we use autofs with --nosuid,nodev. 'mount' on the FC2 wosktation returns: automount(pid5270) on /nfs/irixmachine type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=5270,minproto=2,maxp roto=4) Does this still happen on more recent FC2 kernels? We have not experienced the problem lately, but we do not have too many FC2 machines running. We switched to RH-EL. I'm seeing the same behaviour in both Fedora Core 2 & 3 with every Fedora kernel i've tried (including current). The problem also happens with the stock kernel.org kernel. After doing some research i've tracked down the cause and solution for my particular system: The problem only occurs on volumes exported via NFS on an Irix box that are formatted as XFS version 1. These are older filesystems. The problem does not occur with XFS version 2 formatted filesystems. -32bitclients does not fix this particular bug. It seems to be related to a glibc bug on Linux which was patched over in 2.4.x but the patch never made it into the 2.6.x series of kernels for some reason. Some applications are statically linked against older glibc's which is why they exhibit the problem, other software compiled with Fedora does not. The following thread covers the problem and solutions well: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&threadm=289EB-83g-11%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26scoring%3Dd%26q%3Dxfs%2Birix%2B%2522version%2B2%2522%26btnG%3DSearch Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031121 Description of problem: System running FC2 is NFS mounting an IRIX6.5.19f volume. If such volume's directories are listed from a FC2 shell directly, there are no problems. If a program is used to list the directories, some directory items, be it files or subdirectories, will be missing from the list. Programs used to list the directories were pine 4.60 built from source, mutt-1.4.1-6 and VMwareWorkstation-4.5.1. All these programs behave the same - directory listings of mounted volumes are erratic. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedora core 2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. NFS mount volume on IRIX 6.5.19f from Fedora Core 2 2. run mutt (pine) over that volume 3. list directory using mutt (pine) Actual Results: Certain directory items (subdirectories, files) are missing from the list Expected Results: All directory items should be listed Additional info: Directory listing works OK from a shell. However, when a program is used to list directories, the erroneous results occurr. I did not investigate, if the problem is caused by autofs, nfs-utils, libraries or kernel. I had to downgrade the installation to FC1.