On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 15:52 -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote: > I have come on a situation where a file in a directory is not showing up > in any directory listings, yet is still accessible by direct access. It > shows up in listings on the server but not on the client. I did a > capture of the NFS protocol traffic, and the file is showing up in the > readdir call results. If I recreate the directory using the same file > names but empty files, the behavior persists. > > I am running vanilla 2.6.37.1 on both client and server, using NFSv4. > The server filesystem is ext4. > > Is this a kernel NFS client bug? Is there anything else I can do to > diagnose the source of the problem, or any way to work around it? > > Thanks. There is a known bug in readdir that has been fixed in 2.6.38-rc6, but hasn't yet hit the 2.6.37 stable series. Please check the patch at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=commitdiff&h=d1205f87bbb8040c1408bbd9e0a720310b2b0b9b and see if it fixes your problem. Cheers Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
