Re: RedHat or XFS/NFS?

[James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>]

John W wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Have an Indy on home network, running 6.5.9 and a linux NFS client
> running RHL 7.2 and Kernel 2.4.17-xfs.  When I cd into a NFS mounted dir
> from Linux client, I seem to have issues with
> File operations. (linux-XFS box mounts SGI volume as NFSV2 via fstab
> entry).
> 
> radial 3% ls -la .log*
> ls: No match.
> radial 4% ls -al .login
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 joker99  users        1467 Apr 16  2000 .login
> radial 5%
> 
> So it looks like an NFS related issue?

Apply (at least) the 'seekdir' patch from http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy

(BTW: RedHat based kernels already have this patch, including the 'SGI
XFS release' variants)

You will either have to:

export your IRIX (XFS) file system using the -32bitclients option

or:

remake the IRIX XFS file system with naming version=2 (using 'mkfs -n
version=2 device'). You can find out what 'version' your current file
system is using by running 'xfs_growfs -n /mountpoint'. Of course, this
involves backing up/restoring data ...

James Pearson