On Mon, 26 May 2008 10:44:07 +0200 "Alexander Borghgraef" <alexander.borghgraef.rma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > The ???? fields usually pop up when stat() calls fail. The odd thing in this case though is that stat() seemed to figure out that this was a directory and not a plain file, but missed out on everything else. Is this problem persistent? If so, it might be interesting to run: strace stat cur ...and see what error it's returning. Even better would be to get a capture on the wire at the same time and see if the server is returning an error of some sort. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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