Return-Path: Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:43804 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751202Ab1G0Tjj (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:39:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:39:37 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Justin Piszcz Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.xx: NFS: directory motion/cam2 contains a readdir loop Message-ID: <20110727193937.GA5354@infradead.org> References: <20110727160752.GC974@fieldses.org> <20110727181111.GA23009@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 03:35:01PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Currently I do not see any dupes, however I have a script that moves > images out of the directory once an hour: > 0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/move_to_old2.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 Do you keep adding files to the directory while you move files out? What's the rate of additions/removals to the directory? If we add files to the directory while removing others we could easily re-use the same offset for a different file.