Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:01:58 +1100 (EST) | Subject | Re: [NFS] Incompatibility with Solaris? |
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On Wednesday January 30, Telford002@aol.com wrote: > I installed Suse 7.3 on my workstation and then exported the file > system to a Solaris 2.6 x86 development station. > > I executed a build/make script on the Solaris workstation in > a directory tree on the NFS exported file system. > > The build/make script creates some symbolic links during > the build process. I notice that the paths to the real > file are sometimes trash. I suspect some sort of RPC > problem with symbolic links. Build/make procedures > that create no symbolic links have no problems. > > The Suse 7.3 distribution uses a 2.4.10 kernel. > I tried a 2.4.17 kernel. I received a message > on the Solaris console that the RPC version in > 2.4.17 was incompatible.
I'm sorry, but the NFS server in 2.4.10 (and hence Suse 7.3) has a bug w.r.t. NFSv3 and symlinks. Go for NFSv2 or a different kernel.
> > I have a work around, but it might be worthwhile > to check out.
Fixed in 2.4.11-dontuse and later
> > Note that not every symbolic link created on the > NFS file system during the build procedure is bad, > just a few of them.
The ones where the length of the content is a multiple of 4 bytes in fact.
NeilBrown
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