On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Talpey, Thomas <Thomas.Talpey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The main thing here is that I'd like to understand why this is >>happening? What does it mean when ls returns something like: >> >>d????????? ? ? ? ? ? cur > > This is something very different. (I'm assuming this "ls" was done on the > NFS mount and not the server itself.) Yes, ls on the NFS mount on the client. > Usually, this happens because there > are no attributes available locally - ls seems to know only the filetype > (directory) and filename (cur). What client kernel version are you running? Client kernel: 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 Server kernel: 2.6.9-1.667 -- Alex Borghgraef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html