Hi,

Brian Paul Kroth wrote:

> - multiple ext4 filesystems with dir_index enabled for maildir account storage
> - serves these over nfs (v3 or v4, doesn't matter) to server clients
> running dovecot to serve imap to real clients
> - "ls -l | wc -l" or readdir() in directories with many entries
> (I've   seen it with as few as ~7000) results in the "duplicate
> cookie" or   "too many levels of symbolic links" error being
> returned and the   directory listing will be cut short.

Some patches intended to address this on the server side were
merged during the 3.4 merge window[*].  Could you try 3.5.2 or
newer from experimental and let us know how it goes?

Curious,
Jonathan

[*] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/60157


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

Reply via email to