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Re: NFSD error: dentry not negative!
- To: Justin Hahn <jehahn@raven.bu.edu>
- Subject: Re: NFSD error: dentry not negative!
- From: "G. Allen Morris III" <gam3@harpo.ixlabs.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:14:49 -0800
- cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, nfs-devel@linux.kernel.org
>>>Justin Hahn said:
> I'm getting a LOT of the following sorts of errors while I'm
> downloading stuff off of gnome CVS. The server is 2.2.0pre8, with the
> knfs-981204 package. I've never seen this particular error before,
> anyone know if it's harmful?
Linux of glibc tests if a file/dir exsits before it trys to create
one. SunOS does not. You will see the
nfsd_create: dentry foo/bar not negative
message everytime to try to create a file/directory that already
exists using these clients.
I hope to fix this soon.
Allen
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G. Allen Morris III
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