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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:41:06 +0100
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:28:25 +0100
Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 19:07:33 +0300
> Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:42:04PM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > 
> > > > The comment in the code just above the printk() reads
> > > >                 /* Now that IS odd.  I wonder what it means... */
> > > > Looks like you and Neil (and possibly the ReiserFS team) might want to
> > > > have a chat...
> > > I'm all for it. Who has a glue? I have in fact tons of these messages, it's
> > > a pretty large nfs server.
> > 
> > What is the typical usage pattern for files whose names are printed?
> > Are they created/deleted often by multiple clients/processes by any chance?
> 
> This is a nfs-server who serves web-servers (apache). I find a lot of these
> messages, but they (upto now) only point to 3 different filenames. And these
> are in fact all directories. The box never crashed and has currently 20 days
> uptime. It is dual P-III and has 6 GB of RAM.
> The questionable directories were created long before they first showed this
> message and have never changed (regarding name-change). Their contents were
> possible changed but surely not often meaning no more than once a day or once a
> week.
> It may well occur that multiple nfs-client systems _read_ them, as well as
> multiple processes on one client.
> The nfs-clients are 2.4.19 boxes and one 2.2.21.

And one addition:
They are all second level, meaning look like:

kernel: nfsd-fh: found a name that I didn't expect: libyen2000/pics

(where pics is a directory, too)

-- 
Regards,
Stephan
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