http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507844 Summary: vfat partition hangs after nfs mount on ntfsserver side when server runs SuSE 11.1 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Klaus.Fischer@dfki.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042700 SUSE/3.0.10-1.1.1 Firefox/3.0.10 I try to export a vfat partition of my notebook via nfs to a network. What works quite stable with openSuSE 10.3 and 11.0 does not work at all with 11.1. The strange behaviour can be summarized as follows: 1. After boot ls on the the partition (it is mounted on /back) works nicely as many times as you want 2. After an nfs mount "mount masina:/back /mnt" (masina happens to be the hostname of my notebook :-)) masina:/back is mounted on /mnt . ls /mnt works fine and lists all files and directories of masina:/back . As soon as one dose a ls /mnt/<name> where <name> is the name of a directory in masina:/back, ls is blocked. Even local "ls /back" on masina blocks and shutdown blocks when it tries to unmount /back. And even more strange: If one makes an "ls /back/<name>" on masina first then /mnt/<name> over nfs works, too, with every directory I tried. File access for files in such directories seems to be possible, too. However, anytime a "new" directory is accessed, ls and with that the whole vfat partition blocks. The behavior seems to be identical same when /back is mounted via nfs on masina or on a remote machine. However, because I need to reboot every time when the partition is blocked, you might understand that my willingness to find out all aspects of this was limited. If this bug would be resolved, openSuSE 11.1 would actually be a quite nice distro. I put this as part of "Kernel" because I am using the kernel-based nfs module. I did not want to go through the trouble to test an alternative nfs solution. I rather then continue to use 11.0 to mount my vfat partitions via nfs. Just for completeness I provide the line in /etc/fstab for /back /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9250827AS_5RG1X6YB-part10 /back vfat users,uid=kuf,gid=mas,fmask=0177,dmask=0077,utf8=true 0 0 and my /etc/exports: # See the exports(5) manpage for a description of the syntax of this file. # This file contains a list of all directories that are to be exported to # other computers via NFS (Network File System). # This file used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd. See their manpages for details # on how make changes in this file effective. /media/MYWORK *(rw,root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check) /opt/local/home *(rw,root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check) /back *(rw,root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openSuSE 11.1 32 bit on a PC 2. Load kernel modules for nfs and open firewall ports accordingly 3. Try the commands that are given in the description above. Actual Results: ls blocks, and partition is blocked as described above. Expected Results: List the content of the respective directory. No attachments needed, everything that I consider important is in the text. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.