Bug#714974: NFS 'readdir loop' error on JFS

2013-08-09 Thread Karl Schmidt
This problem is still alive - took a while for it to show up again: (From the client - but speaks of the server ) Aug 9 14:32:20 singapore kernel: [497500.291867] NFS: directory timeless/JFK-prep contains a readdir loop.Please contact your server vendor. The file: 234t.jpg has duplicate cooki

Bug#714974: NFS 'readdir loop' error on JFS

2013-07-08 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 07/07/2013 08:13 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Jonathan McDowell and Karl Schmidt reported that when sharing a JFS filesystem through NFS and Samba, NFS clients can report 'readdir loop' and the directories in question then appear to have duplicate entries on the client system. This was seen with

Bug#714974: NFS 'readdir loop' error on JFS

2013-07-08 Thread bjsch...@gmail.com
Hi Ben, I remember hitting this problem as I was working on the new-ish readdir code. The problem has to do with the readdir cookies generated by JFS. In a large directory the same cookie might be reused to refer to different files, and this can confuse the client (it entered an infinite loop be

Bug#714974: NFS 'readdir loop' error on JFS

2013-07-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
Jonathan McDowell and Karl Schmidt reported that when sharing a JFS filesystem through NFS and Samba, NFS clients can report 'readdir loop' and the directories in question then appear to have duplicate entries on the client system. This was seen with Linux 3.2 on the server and client. The JFS di