[vdr] Re: VDR 1.1.20 wrong symbolic links

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Klaudius Chlebosch wrote:
>> 
>> Hi List,
>> 
>> i have a really strange thing here ( vdr 1.1.20, new driver, TT_BUDGET, SuSE
>> 7.3, /video0 and /video1 over nfs video0 is a symbolic link, server vdr 1.0.4
>> AIO, old driver SIEMENS 1.3, TT_BUDGET, SuSE 7.3, video0 is a symbolic link ).
>> 
>> I tried to record on RTL Der Staatsfeind...
>> 
>> The symbolic links on /video0/... are looking strange
>> 
>> rascal:~/bin #  ls -l
>> /video0/Der_Staatsfeind_Nr._1/2002-12-26.20\:05.50.50.rec/
>> total 1073
>> drwxr-sr-x    2 vdr      video         244 Dec 26 20:18 .
>> drwxr-sr-x    3 vdr      video          77 Dec 26 20:06 ..
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 vdr      video        1319 Dec 26 20:06 001.vdr ->
>> /video1/Der_Staatsfeind_Nr._1/2002-12-26.20:05.50.50.rec/001.vdr


> Wow, I've seen something like this before, but not to such a great extent.
> Axel Gruber had the same problem and spent quite some time tracking it down.
> It apparently is a bug in the kernel NFS server, which I assume you are using.
> Switch to the userspace NFS server and you should be fine.
> 
> BTW: just for the record: this is not a VDR problem, it happens just the same
> with the plain 'ln -s' command. I don't know if this has been fixed in newer
> versions of the kernel NFS server.

Erm, I've never heard of such a NFS bug and I discourage the use of the
user space NFS server. If this is really reproducable via NFS then I
suspect more a bad interaction between the underlying file system and
the NFS server.
ReiserFS is my first guess - it has a long history of NFS problems...

Cheers,
Juri



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