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Cannot initially traverse symlink

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Synopsys
  • NFS

Issue

  • NFS client sometimes cannot access symlink to directory
    1. /foo is a directory
    2. /bar is a symlink that points to /foo
    3. NFS client runs ls /bar/file.name but gets error: No such file or directory
    4. NFS client runs ls /foo and successfully view contents of directory, including file.name
    5. Afterwards, NFS client runs ls /bar/file.name and successfully views file.name
  • Packet trace shows that 
    • Client is not sending an NFS call when running ls /bar/file.name 
    • Client is sending READDIRPLUS NFS call when running ls /foo

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