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- From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: NFS cookies
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.123658.25138@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 12:36:58 GMT
- References: <7594@fury.BOEING.COM> <Bz7y89.2MxA@austin.ibm.com> <1992Dec14.222036.25546@twg.com>
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- In article <1992Dec14.222036.25546@twg.com> hyung@twg.com writes:
- >
- >Unfortunately, the cookie is not THAT opaque. A lot of clients do
- >care about what is inside the cookie, including Sun's. A couple of months
- >ago I posted a similar problem to this group describing a problem where
- >a 'ls' from a Sun client kept on listing the same set of files again
- >and again. It turned out that although my cookies were increasing from 0
- >onward, the 32-bit word (cookie) was not in network byte order. The
- >VAX NFS server, having a different integer representation than that of
- >Sun's, sent the cookie in its native representation thinking that the
- >cookie is opaque, which turned out to be not true. Consequently, the
- >client was seeing cookies with some huge values and in a strange order.
- >Changing the byte order of the cookie on the server pleased the client
- >and resolved the problem.
- >
- I saw something strange while accessing a CD-ROM over NFS from my PC:
-
- in a directory with a huge amount of files, I could only see abt. the
- first 40-50% of the files. The server was an Ultrix box. Could this be
- some of the same syndrome??
-
- -- tore
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- Tore Haraldsen, Statens Datasentral A/S - SDS, Norway
- email: toreh@bootes.sds.no
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