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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:30:59 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: David Ford <david+powerix@blue-labs.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no
Subject: Re: NFS problems, 2.5.5x
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David Ford <david+powerix@blue-labs.org> wrote:
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> Synopsis:  nfsserver:/home/david mount, get dir. entries loops forever, 
> 2.5.59 for client and server.

If the server is ext3+htree then you've hit the htree dir cookie bug.

Use `dumpe2fs -h /dev/hda1 | grep index' to se if you're using htree.

Use `tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/hda1' to disable it.


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