Re: Problems with NFS between IRIX Server and Linux client

[David Rees]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:26:02AM -0500, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> OK.  Strange problem here with NFS that has been experienced on both
> Debian machines and Red Hat machines.  I believe the problem ties in
> to NFS support in the Linux kernel, but I could be entirely wrong.
> 
> Scenario: Serving a filesystem from IRIX 6.5 host.  Accessing it with
> a Linux 2.4.9 Debian Woody machine.  Directory content listings and
> directory info are not consistently reported to the client.
> 
> Symptoms: For directories with #files approx > 200, filename
> completion in bash does not work, many applications do not show files
> in the directory.

Known problem.  See the NFS patches here, specificall the seedir patch.

http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/

-Dave