Trond, good news. I was able to narrow down the problem to purely the client-side, probably dcache/readdir related, and I have a shell script that deterministically triggers the problem each time for me (this is a FC6 image under Vmware 6.0.1). Here's a short shell script which reliably triggers the "lost files" problem -- I create a file via nfs2 on the client side, and sometimes it doesn't show up in readdir, but it is there if you stat it directly.
BTW, since this is a client-side bug, I also tried your last set of posted client patches for Linus, but it didn't help. Happy hunting. :-) Erez. ############################################################################## #!/bin/sh dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/fs.$$.0 bs=1024k count=1 seek=100 losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/fs.$$.0 mkfs -t ext2 -q /dev/loop0 mkdir -p /n/export/b0 mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /n/export/b0 exportfs -o no_root_squash,rw localhost:/n/export/b0 mkdir -p /n/client/b0 mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=2 localhost:/n/export/b0 /n/client/b0 count=0 while true; do cfile="/n/client/b0/F.$count" if touch $cfile ; then echo $cfile created else echo "touch $cfile failed" exit 1 fi if `ls -1 /n/client/b0 | egrep -q F.$count'$'` ; then : else echo "$cfile doesn't exist (but it should)" ls -l /n/client/b0 ls -l /n/export/b0 stat $cfile exit 1 fi let count=count+1 done ############################################################################## - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/