hi there
if you were using the HGFS kernel client from an open-vm-tools then yes there are bugs because the version that was shipped with that was broken and not tested. People didn't listen to my complaints on this.
Current recommended approach is to always use the VMware tools installation for the Shared Folders feature.
open-vm-tools are being used to install the user mode tools only. We are trying to make all features available with these including a FUSE based file sharing client. Version 10 of the open-vm-tools will have this.
Stick with VMware tools install for now for the file sharing.
thanks for al l your great information and debugging this issue.
Steve