2.4.0-test5 NFS kernel server with ReiserFS and 2.4.0-test4 NFS

From: Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 17:23:22 EDT

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    When my 2.4.0-test5 server crashed (as described in my other email) I had the
    filesystem in question mounted via NFS. I pushed the reset button to clear
    the server. After the reboot I did the following on the NFS client (which
    runs 2.4.0-test4):

    rjc@lyta:/mnt/nfs$l
    ls: .: Permission denied
    rjc@lyta:/mnt/nfs$cd
    rjc@lyta:~$cd /mnt/nfs
    rjc@lyta:/mnt/nfs$l
    ls: .: Permission denied
    rjc@lyta:/mnt/nfs$cd ..
    rjc@lyta:/mnt/nfs/..$l
    ls: nfs: Permission denied
    total 5
    drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 216 Aug 9 10:13 .
    drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 520 Jul 31 22:39 ..
    dr-x------ 2 root root 48 Nov 2 1999 cd
    dr-x------ 2 root root 48 Nov 2 1999 dos
    dr-x------ 2 root root 48 Nov 2 1999 ecd
    dr-x------ 2 root root 48 Nov 2 1999 flop
    drwxr-xr-x 7 rjc root 144 Jun 9 10:59 games
    drwx--x--x 14 rjc root 457 Aug 4 16:39 tmp

    From another window:
    rjc@lyta:~$l /mnt
    ls: /mnt/nfs: Permission denied
    total 5
    drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 216 Aug 9 10:13 .
    drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 520 Jul 31 22:39 ..
    dr-x------ 2 root root 48 Nov 2 1999 cd
    dr-x------ 2 root root 48 Nov 2 1999 dos
    dr-x------ 2 root root 48 Nov 2 1999 ecd
    dr-x------ 2 root root 48 Nov 2 1999 flop
    drwxr-xr-x 7 rjc root 144 Jun 9 10:59 games
    drwx--x--x 14 rjc root 457 Aug 4 16:39 tmp

    "l" is an alias for "ls -al" that I use.

    So the problems here are that the NFS permissions are stuffed (it is mode 755
    on the server) and that I get a ".." displayed in the path by bash.

    After umounting and mounting it again everything worked as expected. I
    believe that this is a bug in 2.4.0-test4 NFS client code. I am unable to
    easily test the 2.4.0-test5 NFS client code for this issue because of the
    lack of PCMCIA support.

    Another thing that may be relevant, at the time I reset the server, the
    client was repeatedly sending a readdir command for that directory. Maybe
    the bug occurs when trying to read a directory when the server is rebooted.

    Please let me know if you need more data and I'll do more tests. 

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