Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265800AbUA1XGi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:06:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265964AbUA1XGh (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:06:37 -0500 Received: from ti221110a080-0832.bb.online.no ([80.213.3.64]:18565 "EHLO nidelv.trondhjem.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265800AbUA1XGg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:06:36 -0500 Subject: Re: NFS: giant filename in readdir From: Trond Myklebust To: Jussi Hamalainen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <1075331193.1616.69.camel@nidelv.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:06:33 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1521 Lines: 37 P? ty , 27/01/2004 klokka 21:53, skreiv Jussi Hamalainen: > Both boxes have an almost identical setup of Slackware 9.1 and were > running 2.4.23-pac1+security bugfixes. The boxes are connected to the > same switch and VLAN. They mount filesystems from each other (yeah, I > know cross-mounting with NFS is a bad idea...) and the problem > occurred on both servers simultaineously. > > The mounts look like this: > > mir:/home on /home type nfs > (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr,lock,addr=XXX) > mir:/archive on /archive type nfs > (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,intr,addr=XXX) > > sputnik:/var/spool/mail on /var/spool/mail type nfs > (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr,lock,nfsvers=2,addr=XXX) > sputnik:/files on /files type nfs > (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,intr,nfsvers=2,addr=XXX) Any info forthcoming on the filesystem you used and/or a binary tcpdump demonstrating the problem? (remember to use a large snaplen in the tcpdump - something like "-s 9000"). Does the problem still occur when you change "soft" to "hard"? Note that the default setting for "retrans" as set by the nfs-utils "mount" program is way too low for "soft" on UDP. Cheers, Trond BTW: 2.4.23 has no readdir changes at all compared to 2.4.21. I've no idea WTF 2.4.23-pac1 contains... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/