Re: funny NFS (Linux and Solaris)

[Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov>]

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jinsong Zhao wrote:

> I exported one directory at my Linux to one Solaris 2.5.1 machine. On
> Solaris, I ran 'ln -s /tmp tmp', then ran 'file tmp', it says:
> "readlink error: Invalid argument". However, when I 'ls -l' on the
> Linux, it is fine. 
> 
> Another problem is when I create a directory on Solaris and then want
> to cd into it, it complains that it is not directory. When I check
> that directory on Linux, everything is fine.
> 
> There must be some funny things going on between Solaris and Linux
> over NFS. This kind of problem prevents me from building file system
> around Linux.
> 
> The Solaris filesystem is using UFS, Linux is using ext2. 
> 
> Any suggestion?

 i believe you have to ask Sun for Solaris 2.5.1 NFS patch..

OK