On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 16:28 +0000, Orion Poplawski wrote: > I filed a bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808112 > > Description of problem: > > client A: > touch blah > ln -s blah blahlink > > client B: > open("blahlink", O_RDONLY|O_CREAT, 0666) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) That sounds more like a server bug. It shouldn't be replying NFS4ERR_EXIST here, since this isn't an exclusive create; it should rather be replying with NFS4ERR_SYMLINK. Which server are you testing against, and what does the wireshark trace show? -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{��w���jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥