Re: fh_verify: permission failure (?)

[Tad Dolphay <tbd@sgi.com>]

> 
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 at 10:20am, Steve Lord wrote
> 
> > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 at 10:59am, Darrell Michaud wrote
> > >
> > > > I see this same problem with our test XFS / NFS server.
> > > >
> > > And I see the same problem on two stock RH-7.1 (i.e. non XFS) NFS servers
> > > with Linux and IRIX clients.  I have heard no complaints (well, about this
> > > anyway) from the users, though, so I haven't looked into fixing it.
> > >
> >
> > Define 'problem' here, the code is basically a debug printf which says
> > that an nfs client attempted to access a file it did not have permission
> > to access and is being rejected. If a user who really does have access to
> > a file is rejected by this code then there is a real problem, otherwise
> > it is just the kernel being chatty.
> 
> Ah, sorry -- I should have been clearer.  I meant that I see the same
> *messages* on my non-XFS servers, but none of the users have claimed to be
> denied access to that to which they are entitled.  Thus it really isn't a
> problem (or, it hasn't been for me), and it isn't XFS specific.
> 
I've seen these errors too. The only time it has been a real error is when
using mmap because of known client-side credential problems with mmap.

Tad