From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: RedHat 7.1 (fine with 6.2 and 7.0) even after getting an updated NFS Handle from NFS Server in a lookup call, Linux NFS Client issues, calls with old NFS Handle, which fails. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: *. Works fine with RedHat 6.2 and 7.0, but fails in 7.1 *. Against Netware NFS Server, exporting an NSS Volume 1. touch a 2. mv a b 3. link b c (or) cat b Actual Results: Gives an I/O Error in either case. Expected Results: Step 3 should create a hardlink c to b (or) display content of b Additional info: * Say fileHandle of 'a' is fh1 * During mv, rename operation 'a' to 'b' is successful. (But NetWare NFS Server changes the fileHandle of 'b' to fh2) * Linux NFS Client now issues a Lookup for 'b' and gets the new fileHandle fh2 (EXPECTING Linux NFS client to update it's fileHandle cache, at this point) * Now during linking or reading, instead of issuing NFS Calls with updated fh2 handle, NFS Calls are issued with fh1, leading to the I/O error, as the handle may not always be valid now at the NFS Server. Will attach or send the snoop traces soon or when asked for. Contact PMadhan
Changed priority and severity as basic operations like fail due to this, against the NFS Server.
Please Upgrade to supported Release