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