On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:59 AM, William Lutter <[email protected]> wrote: > I did not find this in archives, so a quick report. My apologies if I missed > it. > NFS server SL5.9 with kernel 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5 > > Problem: NFS client (SL6.1) would see multiple cookies for some files and > directories. dmesg reported one directory in particular and a few files. All > files in that directory repeated 3 times. 2 of 3 directories repeated 3 > times. One directory missing on the NFS client side. > > Original file system fine. Directory listing correct. Older SL4.9 NFS client > fine. > > Google search yielded: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739222 > which indicated a problem with this specific kernel (2.6.18-348.1) and that > reverting to 2.6.18-308.24.1.el5 solved it. > > The reported problem was different than mine, it seemed to be specific to > directories with a large number of files (160K), whereas, my directory had > 167. > > Anyway, my NFS client problem solved by reverting to the next oldest kernel > (2.6.18-308.24.1). > > What is the easiest way to track if updated kernels "fix" this issue other > than trying them out. > > Bill Lutter
Can you check to see if your problem is related to this upstream KB article : https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/306063 Akemi
