On Sun, 12 May 2013, Rick Macklem wrote: RM>Hartmut Brandt wrote: RM>> Hi, RM>> RM>> I've updated one of my -current machines this week (previous update RM>> was in RM>> february). Now I see a strange effect (it seems only on NFS mounts): RM>> ls or RM>> even echo * will list only some files (strange enough the first files RM>> from RM>> the normal, alphabetically ordered list). If I change something in the RM>> directory (delete a file or create a new one) for some time the RM>> complete RM>> listing will appear but after sime time (seconds to a minute or so) RM>> again RM>> only part of the files is listed. RM>> RM>> A ktrace on ls /usr/src/lib/libc/gen shows that getdirentries is RM>> called RM>> only once (returning 4096). For a full listing getdirentries is called RM>> 5 RM>> times with the last returning 0. RM>> RM>> I can still open files that are not listed if I know their name, RM>> though. RM>> RM>> The NFS server is a Windows 2008 server with an OpenText NFS Server RM>> which RM>> works without problems to all the other FreeBSD machines. RM>> RM>> So what could that be? RM>> RM>I've attached a patch that might be worth trying. It is a "shot in the dark", RM>but brings the new NFS client's readdir closer to the old one (which you RM>mentioned still works ok). RM> RM>Please let me know how it goes, if you have a chance to test it, rick
Hi Rick, the patch doesn't help. I wrote a small test program, which opens a directory, calls getdents(2) in a loop and dumps that. I figured out, that the return of the system call depends on the buffer size I pass to it. The directory has a block size of 4k according to fstat(2). If I use that, I get some 300 of the almost 500 directory entries. If I use 8k, I get just around 200 and if I use 16k I get a handfull. If I dump the buffer in this case I see 0x200 bytes filled with directory entries, then a lot of zeros and starting from 0x1000 again data. This is of course ignored because of the zeros before. All this looks very strange. harti _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
