On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 01:13:02PM +0300, Vasyl Vavrychuk wrote: > I have found that hard links for regular files works well for me over NFS: > > $ touch bar > $ ln bar tata > > But if I try to make hard link for symlink, then it fails: > > $ ln -s foo bar > $ ln bar tata > ln: failed to create hard link 'tata' => 'bar': Operation not permitted Huh. I'm not sure I even realized it was possible to hardlink symlinks. Makes sense, I guess. I think my first step debugging this would be to watch wireshark while attempting the "ln", and see what happens. That should tell us whether it's the client or server that's failing the operation. --b. > > I am using NFSv4 with Vagrant, here is mount entry: > > 172.28.128.1:PATH on /vagrant type nfs4 > (rw,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=IP,local_lock=none,addr=IP) > > I have also verified that rpc-statd is running on host. > > Host machine is Ubuntu 18.04 with NFS packages version 1:1.3.4-2.1ubuntu5.3. > > Will appreciate help on this. > > Thanks, > Vasyl
