Hi - I've been running into problems with solaris clients seeing files as directories and directories as files on filesystems exported from our Debian alpha NFS server. I thought this was a user-land NFS server issue so I've recently upgraded to the kernel NFS server. However we still see these problems.
I'm running a stock 2.2.20 kernel on a Debian Potato installed alpha box with the kernel NFS server and v0.3.2 nfsutils. Its really easy to reproduce with the user-land server (I've got a script that does it everytime) but only seems to happen occasionally using the kernel NFS server, usually during compilations across NFS when theres a lot of file creation/deletion. It looks like the files/directories in question get the same inodes - I thought this wasnt a problem as long as the generation numbers were different.... Unfortunately its hard to say how to reproduce it, for the user-land server all you had to do was create a file, remove it, create a directory and then remove it in quick succession and you'd get it after a few goes. Anyone got any clues? Cheers Marcus -- Marcus Williams http://www.onq2.com Quintic Ltd, 39 Newnham Road, Cambridge, UK
