On Jul 12 2016, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In NFSv4, offsets 1 and 2 are reserved: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7530#section-16.24 Ah, that explains it. Thanks! I was assuming that I could export any "proper" unix file system over NFS - and as far as I know, the rest of the VFS does not make any assumptions (or reservations) about readdir offsets. Are there other such constraints? I looked at the RFC, but it's rather hard to extract that specific information... Best, Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- 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