Bug#448503: NFS client problem - writing with group-access fails
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 02:29:02PM +0200, Ruediger Oberhage wrote:
>
> I assume that b) is the actually culprit part. Now, I haven't read
> the specs for nfs and thus can't really tell whether it is the
> AIX nfs-server, that should allow that two attributes changing call,
> or the Linux-Client, that shouldn't alter both attributes at once.
> It workes perfectly the way it used to be and that SUN-code-derived
> NFS's (IRIX, OPENSTEP, MacOS X) do. But, since Linux used to work
> that way, too, a few kernel-versions in the past, even when it is
> playing according to the book now, it would be nice to have an
> option, so that it works with that server, too, because for us, it
> is a nuissance at best and a catastrophe in the worst case.
>
> On the other hand, it could be a real error the way it is now, and
> then it should certainly be corrected.
>
> Should you need any more information, I'll be glad to provide it
> wherever I can.
Could you try to reproduce this with 2.6.28-rc6 and report this
upstream at http://bugzilla.kernel.org if the problem still persists?
Cheers,
Moritz
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