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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:46:53 -0800
From: David Ford <david+powerix@blue-labs.org>
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Subject: Re: NFS problems, 2.5.5x
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Underlying filesystems on both client and server are reiserfs.

Got any more quickie suggestions? :)

Thanks,
David

Andrew Morton wrote:

>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.
>>    
>>
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>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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