Re: 2.6.xx: NFS: directory motion/cam2 contains a readdir loop

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Bryan Schumaker wrote:

> On 07/27/2011 12:28 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:54:09AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Kernel 2.6.30 on client.
> > > > Kernel 2.6.28 on server.
> > > >
> > > > p34 kernel: [92223.918892] NFS: directory motion/cam2 contains a
> > > > readdir loop.  Please contact your server vendor.  Offending cookie: 10272
> > > What filesystem on the server are you exporting?
> > Hi,
> >
> > xfs.
> > /dev/sda1 on / type xfs (rw,noatime)
> >
> > Nothing special, thoughts?
> Are there a lot of files in the directory you're exporting?  It looks like 
> cookie 10272 is mapped to multiple files. When the client tries to resume 
> reading from this cookie, xfs will reply from the first matching file and cause 
> the client to enter a loop.
Should I be using a different filesystem?

user@atom:/d1$ cd /d1/motion/cam1
user@atom:/d1/motion/cam1$ ls|wc
   5198    5198  140346
user@atom:/d1/motion/cam1$

Justin.