File Corruption Linux -> Novell NFS

After the XFS/NFS issue got resolved, I was able to focus my testing to the other NFS corruption I was seeing. All the test does is copy a file to novell, then compares the remote copy to the local (XFS fs) one. The corruption only occurs sometimes and tends to be on an 8k boundary, but not always. And NO, this is not a network problem, since I don't see the corruption on a FreeBSD (FreeBSD->novell NFS) box which is on the same network. I have also seen it on systems with different network cards (intel and broadcom gigabit cards). I have seen this on kernels 2.4.22 & 2.4.26.

Another problem I see is when deleting from an NFS mounted tru64 system. I often get a "no such file or directory" error when I delete the file even though a ls right before the delete shows the file there. And after the delete, the file is no longer in the directory, even though the delete claimed the file wasn't there, it still deleted the file. I have not seen file corruption to a tru64 box.

Andy