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Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Subject: Re: NFS (& amd?) dysfunction descending a hierarchy
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Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:01:10AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:15:38PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
>>> I seem to have a fairly- (though not deterministly so) reproducible
>>> mode of failure with an NFS-mounted directory hierarchy:  An attempt to
>>> traverse a "sufficiently large" hierarchy (e.g., via "tar zcpf" or "rm
>>> -fr") will fail to "visit" some subdirectories, typically apparently
>>> acting as if the subdirectories in question do not actually exist
>>> (despite the names having been returned in the output of a previous
>>> readdir()).
>>> ... 
> 
> Did you saw me previous answer ? Supposed patch for your problem was
> committed to head as r185557, and MFCed to 7 in r185796, and to
> 7.1 in r185801.
> 
> Please test with latest sources.


did you notice that he tested with latest -current and releng 7?