NFS weirdness

[franck67]

Hi everyone,
i'm new on the forum, cause i'm looking for help desperately.
I'm in charge of a SGI Octane, running IRIX 6.5, and i'm completely clueless with this system.
I can deal with other more recent UNIX systems, but i'm really in pain with this one, and unfortunately, i can't do without. Some coworkers are using an old software, who was never edited on another system in the last 20 years, so voila....
In order to provide them more security in case of some lost work, or failing hardware, i managed to duplicate the system on another Octane that i bought on a marketplace.
So now, people can work on the same software, at the same time, but then come a new request.
How to save properly, and how to be able to work on their files from any station ?
I then provided a NFS server, running on a debian VM, i mounted the NFS drive on both Octane, and asked people to save their files in that directory only, but here is the problem i'm facing.
When i list the NFS Server's files from any of the SGI station, they all appears to have the same size, modification date, and content.
When i list the NFS Server's files from the server directly or from another debian machine, all the files are ok.

Exemple : command on the NFS server :

root@nfs-serv:/home/user1/user2# ls -al
total 67484
-rw------- 1 user1 user1  179751  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwin100Ju13.msi
-rw------- 1 user1 user1  133127  3 janv. 05:42 'sPSTwinAvril!137.msi'
-rw------- 1 user1 user1  167326  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13Cartierdemi.msi
-rw------- 1 user1 user1  129102  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin1.msi
-rw------- 1 user1 user1  128903  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin2.msi
-rw------- 1 user1 user1  129083  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin4.msi
-rw------- 1 user1 user1  119818  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13CartierH.msi
-rw------- 1 user1 user1   75305  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinPlaneThomasPper.msi
-rw------- 1 user1 user1   40769  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinPrim010a.msi
-rw------- 1 user1 user1   18487  3 janv. 05:42  TCB010.msi
-rw------- 1 user1 user1    6092  3 janv. 05:42  test.msi

command on the SGI1 :

sgi1 25# ls -al
total 29706
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 sPSTwin100Ju13.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 sPSTwinAvril13Cartierdemi.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin1.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin2.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin4.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 sPSTwinAvril13CartierH.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 sPSTwinAvril!137.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 sPSTwinPlaneThomasPper.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 sPSTwinPrim010a.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 TCB010.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  2 23:42 test.msi

command on the SGI2 :

sgi2 9# ls -al
total 29706
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  3 05:42 sPSTwin100Ju13.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  3 05:42 sPSTwinAvril!137.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  3 05:42 sPSTwinAvril13CartierH.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  3 05:42 sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin1.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  3 05:42 sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin2.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  3 05:42 sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin4.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  3 05:42 sPSTwinAvril13Cartierdemi.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  3 05:42 sPSTwinPlaneThomasPper.msi
-rw-------    1 1001     1001       11446 Jan  3 05:42 sPSTwinPrim010a.msi

command on a random debian server :

root@serv-intra:~/nfs-test# ls -al
total 67484
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin  179751  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwin100Ju13.msi
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin  133127  3 janv. 05:42 'sPSTwinAvril!137.msi'
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin  167326  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13Cartierdemi.msi
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin  129102  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin1.msi
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin  128903  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin2.msi
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin  129083  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13CartierHMin4.msi
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin  119818  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinAvril13CartierH.msi
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin   75305  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinPlaneThomasPper.msi
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin   40769  3 janv. 05:42  sPSTwinPrim010a.msi
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin   18487  3 janv. 05:42  TCB010.msi
-rw------- 1 servadmin servadmin    6092  3 janv. 05:42  test.msi

I only put a part of the results, as there is hundreds of files in that directory.
Also, as u can see some files are not in the same order.
Thanks for any help you could provide me. If you need more informations, feel free to ask, or to ask me a command to type and display for you, but just keep in my mind that i only have access to those stations via SSH 95% of the time, so without graphical.
Thanks a lot !

 

[SolusRaion]

Assuming the octane is the storage server it sounds to me like there are configuration options resulting in an incompatibility.

TechPubs

techpubs.jurassic.nl

Here are the administration manuals that are relevant to many of the tasks that you're performing here. Can you get us an idea of your configuration files like exports and the way the file systems mounted in the fstab etc?

 

[franck67]

Hi, and thanks for trying to help !
The Octane is NOT the storage server.
The Octane is a station with a specific software, producing results as *.msi files.
I'm storing those files on an NFS share, which is hosted on a debian VM
I mount the share with the command : /sbin/mount -t nfs 192.168.3.145:/home/user1/user2 /usr/people/files/user2

the fstab file :

sgi1 10# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/root / xfs rw,raw=/dev/rroot 0 0
/dev/dsk/dks1d2s4 /marc xfs rw 0 0
/dev/dsk/dks1d2s5 /data xfs rw 0 0
/dev/dsk/dks1d2s6 /ibmp xfs rw 0 0
/swap/swap3 swap swap pri=2 0 0
/swap/swap1 swap swap pri=2 0 0
/dev/dsk/dks0d2s0 /bouleau xfs rw 0 0
/dev/dsk/dks0d2s7 /usr/people/soft xfs rw 0 0