On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:41:17PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 06:20:04PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> > Tested on 2.6.22.10 and 2.6.23.9, client and server running same version.
> > export options: rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,mp
> > 
> > After a substantial amount of time (days) but also after a server
> > reboot a process loses access to its current working directory when
> > access to a parent directory two (or more) levels up has been revoked:
> > 
> >     $ cd /mnt
> >     $ mkdir -p a/b/c
> >     $ cd a/b/c
> >     $ chmod 0 ../..
> >     $ ls -a
> >     . ..
> >     $
> >             (wait a loong time or reboot server)
> >     $ ls -a
> >     ls: .: Permission denied
> > 
> > Network traffic capture showed a V3 ACCESS call for above "." failing
> > on the server after the reboot with NFS3ERR_ACCES. It succeeded before.
> > 
> > I have the impression the server is internally rechecking the entire
> > path when its caches have been flushed. This behavior is problematic
> > for daemons which change uid, for example.
> 
> What are your export options?  (Do you have nosubtreecheck turned on?)
yes, see above export options.

-- 
Frank
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