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From: "Arti F. Idiot" <addr@is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: very odd nfs behaviour
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:13:23 -0700
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On 1/24/25 9:56 AM, Mike Scott wrote:
> A very odd situation here.
> 
> I have a (freebsd) server serving a tree of photos and information 
> files. It's large, and the paths quite long - whether that's relevant I 
> don't know.
> 
> On two of three machines all running mint at various versions all is 
> well; I have problems on the third, which happens to be my desktop box. 
> An example good listing would be (sorry about wrap):

<snip>

> The OS versions are different - I'm running mint 21.2, the VM is at 
> 21.3; while the others are both rather older versions (and different 
> hardware). The machines are all configured the same.
> 
> 
> I'm at a loss! Can anyone suggest what's going on here please? I'm sure 
> this used to work!

I'm sure you've already checked for aliased commands but if not..

Any chance the problem machine has a different filesystem, i.e. BTRFS ?
Delayed CoW processing of large NFS mounts could cause some weirdness.