chmod, chown or chgrp fails silently on an NFS share mounted on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and above NFS client

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Issue

  • chmod, chown or chgrp fails silently on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and above clients mounting an NFS share.
  • If the share is first traversed before issuing one of the above commands they will succeed.
  • The commands appear to succeed on the client machine but do not issue on-the-wire setattr's.

Environment

  • Client:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ≥ 6.3
    • kernel ≥ 2.6.32-279.13.1
    • Mounting NFS share
  • Server:
    • Sharing NFS

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