From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: When running nfs client and mounting an export from a HP700 server running HP- UX, not all files are always displayed within mounted directories. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.mount an nfs export 2.do an "ll" or view the mount from nautilus 3. Actual Results: Certain directories (usually ones with more than 300 files) report 0 items found in the directory. Expected Results: Correct file counts to be reported Additional info: The client machine is an HP Vectra Vli8 with a 3Com 3c905b NIC. I have another identical machine running Redhat Linux 6.1 which performs this same task with no problem, it also has a 3Com 3c905b NIC. I have tried changing read and write sizes to 1024, as well as many other trial read and write sizes to no avail. I have used Redhat Network to update the 7.2 kernel to 2.4.9-31, as well as updateing all installed packages, nfs-utils included.
Can you try the latest kernel from RAWHIDE? ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
The 2.4.17-0.18 Rawhide kernel seems to have fixed the nfs client issue. Do you know what the problem is with 2.4.7-10 and 2.4.9-31?
There were a large number of nfs related bug-fixes added to the kernel between 2.4.10 and 2.4.18. I suspect one of these addressed the problem you were seeing.