Re: files disappearing from ls on NFS

Hartmut Brandt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've updated one of my -current machines this week (previous update
> was in
> february). Now I see a strange effect (it seems only on NFS mounts):
> ls or
> even echo * will list only some files (strange enough the first files
> from
> the normal, alphabetically ordered list). If I change something in the
> directory (delete a file or create a new one) for some time the
> complete
> listing will appear but after sime time (seconds to a minute or so)
> again
> only part of the files is listed.
> 
> A ktrace on ls /usr/src/lib/libc/gen shows that getdirentries is
> called
> only once (returning 4096). For a full listing getdirentries is called
> 5
> times with the last returning 0.
> 
> I can still open files that are not listed if I know their name,
> though.
> 
> The NFS server is a Windows 2008 server with an OpenText NFS Server
> which
> works without problems to all the other FreeBSD machines.
> 
> So what could that be?
> 
I've attached a patch that might be worth trying. It is a "shot in the dark",
but brings the new NFS client's readdir closer to the old one (which you
mentioned still works ok).

Please let me know how it goes, if you have a chance to test it, rick

> Regards,
> harti
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