Sporadic "Permission Denied" errors when attempting to access a file on an NFS share caused by a race in the RHEL NFS server
Issue
- Sporadic
Permission Denied
errors in NFS clients during around 10 minutes. - During this period, in the NFS server, the user entry getting denied in
/proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.gid/content
presents multiple instances of the same GID listed, and missing GIDs.
Environment
- Red Hat enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- NFS Server
rpc.mountd
is configured with--manage-gids
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