[RHEL5 / RHEL6] The "scp -r" command fails on NFSv4, or open fails with EISDIR
Issue
- build tool that issues nmake randomly fails. When an strace is taken of the failing process, we see
openfailing withEISDIRas follows:open("/foo/bar/include", O_RDONLY) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory). If he disables parallel compilation, he does not notice any issue with the build process. -
The "scp -r" command fails if NFSv4 contains a directory.
# scp -rp root NFSv4 client :/mnt/nfs ./tmp/. scp: /mnt/nfs/dir1: Is a directory -
The strace and the tcpdump show open() for directory fails with "EISDIR" as the following.
(5.6z) (5.6z) (5.6z)
client NFSv4 client NFSv4 server
| | |
| | NFSv4 mount |
| scp NG | --------------|
|-------------- | | set EISDIR
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 6
- Architecture: x86_64
- Kernel Version: kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel 2.6.32-131
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