Very Computer

 A friend has a bunch of dual PIII computers running Mandrake 6.1 SMP
He has found that if he does a mv deep ( many subdirectories down) in
the nfs mounted tree, the next command completely crashes the system--
power down is the only way to revive it.

say /home is an nfs mounted filesystem. If youdo
mkdir A;cd A;mkdir A; cd A;....;mkdir A; cd A
mkdir A
mv A B
ls
The computer will completely crash on the ls. Only a powerdown will
revive it.

mandrake 6.1 Kernel 2.3.13, knfsd 1.1.4, Ethernet card Intel eepro100
with the latest drivers for that card.

fwiw, dont know how deep you went but on my diskless client
(all nfs) ...

chinstrap:/tmp/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a #mv b a
chinstrap:/tmp/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a #lsaa
drwxr-xr-x   2 steve    steve        1024 Mar 12 11:44 a

data ... rh6.1 , 2.2.12-20 & knfsd-1.4.7

maybe a knfsd  upgrade would fix it (or did you go deeper :-) ?

Cheers,

Steve Houseman

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currently  steve.houseman at * net