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- From: shepler@gumby.austin.ibm.com ( Spencer Shepler )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: NFS Problem
- Message-ID: <SHEPLER.92Sep7224257@gumby.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 03:42:57 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.080327.13580@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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- In-Reply-To: jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de's message of 4 Sep 92 08:03:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep4.080327.13580@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Joerg Wedeck) writes:
-
- The problem is that the creat system call is malfunctioning and damaging
- the file-system on the RS6000 file server.
- when i try to do a creat call on a directory an error should be returned.
- on a sun, using a sun file server, this works correctly, also between the
- rs6000 workstations. when i use creat on a directory on a sun with a
- file-system mounted from an RS6000 machine, no error is return, instead the
- directory is truncated to zero length (!!).
- trying this the other way round (ibm rs6000 has mounted a file-system from
- a sun) no problem occurs.
-
- Now the question: Whose fault might it be ? IBM or Sun ?
-
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- Joerg Wedeck | E-Mail: jw@peanuts.informatik\
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-
- Joerg,
-
- There was problem in the AIX 3.1 NFS server that allowed a client
- to successfully execute a create/truncate on a directory. This
- problem has been fixed in AIXv3 so that it will not allow the client
- to truncate the directory.
-
- As to which system is truly at fault? SunOS isn't very nice to do
- the create/truncate on the directory but it is certainly wrong of the
- AIX NFS server not to protect itself. :-)
-
- Spencer
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