Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 15:21:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
cc: Karl Schmidt <karl@xtronics.com>, Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>,
        jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] [PATCH] jfs: fix readdir cookie incompatibility
 with NFSv4
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 at 15:48, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> This patch replaces the one I posted yesterday. I like this better since
> it doesn't require fixing existing on-disk cookies or skipping a
> position in the in-inode index table.
> 
> NFSv4 reserves readdir cookie values 0-2 for special entries (. and ..),
> but jfs allows a value of 2 for a non-special entry. This incompatibility
> can result in the nfs client reporting a readdir loop.
> 
> This patch doesn't change the value stored internally, but adds one to
> the value exposed to the iterate method.

Out of curiosity, will this land on 3.11?

Christian.
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