Oracle Linux: Using NFSV4 and UEK4 Causes File Listings to show up as " ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? <file>" (Doc ID 2472841.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 07, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

When attempting to list a mount using a NFS share the following appears.

root@server:/mnt/caringo# ls -alh
ls: cannot access test.txt: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access test2.txt: No such file or directory 
ls: cannot access localdir: No such file or directory 
ls: cannot access test3.txt: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access test4.txt: No such file or directory
total 4.0K
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Oct 5 08:36 ..
d?????????? ? ? ? ? ? localdir
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? test.txt
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? test2.txt
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? test3.txt
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? test4.txt 

This is when using the Caringo SwarmNFS packages which uses NFSv4 specification.

Changes

Installed or updated to an affected kernel. 

Cause

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