Hello everyone, got this specific problem with RHEL5 guest under KVM hypervisor. client/server kernel version: 3.16.2 /etc/exports: rw,async,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash /proc/mounts: nfs4 rw,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=524288,wsize=524288, namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,port=0, timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, local_lock=none,addr=xxx.xxx.xxx.yyy 0 0 CONFIG_NFS_FS=m # CONFIG_NFS_V2 is not set CONFIG_NFS_V3=m # CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL is not set CONFIG_NFS_V4=m # CONFIG_NFS_SWAP is not set # CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 is not set # CONFIG_NFS_USE_LEGACY_DNS is not set CONFIG_NFS_USE_KERNEL_DNS=y CONFIG_NFSD=m CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y # CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL is not set CONFIG_NFSD_V4=y # CONFIG_NFSD_FAULT_INJECTION is not set CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y CentOS-5.10-i386-bin-1of8.iso -- did not test everything on centos, behaved same as RHEL5. So let's use it as VM reproducer: dd if=/dev/zero of=kvm-test1.img bs=1M count=2048 start VM using: file=kvm-test1.img,cache=writeback,aio=native,if=virtio,boot=on create custom layout: /dev/vda1 / ext3 max size primary unselect Desktop-Gnome, select Customize now use only: Base System/Base and install it.. [root@test1 ~]# find / >/dev/null everything works as expected with writeback shutdown, backup kvm-test1.img (fs will explode) start VM using: file=kvm-test1.img,cache=none,aio=native,if=virtio,boot=on [root@test1 ~]# find / >/dev/null and check dmesg, reboot etc, ie: EXT3-fs error (device vda1): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #460317: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 EXT3-fs error (device vda1): htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #98503: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 Tested locally on ext4, xfs - WORK Tested on NFSv4 share with ext4, xfs - FAIL Tested NFSv4 share sync, async - FAIL Tested on NFSv3 share with xfs - WORK KVM with qemu rhel-6.5, 2.1.1 - SAME RESULTS NOTE: it seems just the rhel5 guest triggers it easily.. HTH, Z. -- 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