Re: files disappearing from ls on NFS

On Thu, 2 May 2013, Freddie Cash wrote:

FC>There was just a security update that dealt with changes to getdirent or
FC>something along those lines.
FC>
FC>Check the security notices, and then see if reverting that change makes a
FC>difference.
FC>
FC>It was just in the past week here.

If you mean SA-13:05.nfsserver that seams to be related to the NFS server 
only. My problem is in the client.

harti

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FC>On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Hartmut Brandt <hartmut.brandt_at_dlr.de>
FC>wrote:
FC>      Hi,
FC>
FC>      I've updated one of my -current machines this week (previous
FC>      update was in february). Now I see a strange effect (it seems
FC>      only on NFS mounts): ls or even echo * will list only some files
FC>      (strange enough the first files from the normal, alphabetically
FC>      ordered list). If I change something in the directory (delete a
FC>      file or create a new one) for some time the complete listing
FC>      will appear but after sime time (seconds to a minute or so)
FC>      again only part of the files is listed.
FC>
FC>      A ktrace on ls /usr/src/lib/libc/gen shows that getdirentries is
FC>      called only once (returning 4096). For a full listing
FC>      getdirentries is called 5 times with the last returning 0.
FC>
FC>      I can still open files that are not listed if I know their name,
FC>      though.
FC>
FC>      The NFS server is a Windows 2008 server with an OpenText NFS
FC>      Server which works without problems to all the other FreeBSD
FC>      machines.
FC>
FC>      So what could that be?
FC>
FC>      Regards,
FC>      harti
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