Sorry for the noise, here's another oddity, same setup (client & server running 3.11-rc5): $ find /mnt/nfs/usr/share/ -name getopt.awk -ls 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk It's the same file, but gets reported 10 times! Hence the error when trying to tar(1) the directory: $ tar -cf - /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/ > /dev/null tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: /mnt/nfs/usr/share/awk/: Cannot savedir: Too many levels of symbolic links tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors On the server: $ find /mnt/disk/usr/share/ -name getopt.awk -ls 25072 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2237 Mar 16 04:46 /mnt/disk/usr/share/awk/getopt.awk So, is "JFS && NFS" really br0ken and nobody noticed? -- 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