After a complete crash (user error :-), I reinstalled my box using
recent cooker CD's (more or less up to date). Doing so I discovered a
problem I had not seen before - newly created files (for example
compiled programs) in my NFS home directory were not executable. After
some debugging I figured out that the file actually was executable on
the NFS server (which is running Mandrake 7.1 with a 2.2 kernel).
After some frustration I installed the "plain" kernel,
kernel-linus2.4-2.4.16-4mdk to be exact. Now I do not have such a
problem. Thus some patch in the mdk-kernels do cause this NFS
attribute caching bug (just my guess that the problem is something
like that). Broken kernels I've tried with are kernel-2.4.16.11mdk-1-1mdk
and kernel-enterprise-2.4.16.11mdk-1-1mdk.
Unfortunately I can't use the plain kernel since my main partition
uses XFS.
If required, I can give exact specs on the NFS server as well (the NFS
client is an up-to-date cooker as of the time I write this email).
Thanks.
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[ Below is a random fortune, which is unrelated to the above message. ]
Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem
to the earlier joke.
