Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30221 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752048Ab1E3L6V (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 07:58:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 07:59:30 -0400 From: Jeff Layton To: Ruediger Meier Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: infinite getdents64 loop Message-ID: <20110530075930.134c7541@corrin.poochiereds.net> In-Reply-To: <201105301137.02061.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> References: <201105281502.32719.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> <201105291855.04487.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> <1306688643.2386.24.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <201105301137.02061.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Mon, 30 May 2011 11:37:01 +0200 Ruediger Meier wrote: > On Sunday 29 May 2011, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > It's actually a problem with the underlying filesystem: it is > > generating readdir 'offsets' that are not unique. In other words, if > > Does this mean ext4 generally does not work with for nfs? > > Does it help if you turn off the dir_index feature on the filesystem? See the tune2fs(8) manpage for how to do that. -- Jeff Layton