From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 21 03:13:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA04968 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA04963 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA04126; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:11:35 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:11:33 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Terry Lambert cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, karl@Mcs.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NFS node: disappearing directory In-Reply-To: <199610181904.MAA01751@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > Ah, another question requiring more than a 10 line answer. 8-(. > > > > > > But 3) says it does get reloaded. > > > > > > Sometimes. But if go to the "up-level" when it happens and do a "ls", you > > > get a VERY short list (~10% of what's really there - right about 200 > > > entries) > > > > Umm. Is John around? What kind of memory does the result of readdir go > > into? > > Depends on the FS. For NFS, "bogus cookie handling memory which was > allocated for fear the user buffer would be too small to return the > data". > > The problem is cookie related. The fix is to get rid of the cookie > code. The problem is cookie related but in the client. The cookie stuff Terry is going on about is in the server which is irrelavent to this bug. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426