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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:25:17 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 9.3 NFS client bug?
Message-ID:  <21557.22365.961980.709081@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1402889337.60119616.1412731241078.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca>
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<<On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 21:20:41 -0400 (EDT), Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> said:

> As far as I know, this has never worked correctly for FreeBSD. The
> unlink() invalidates the directory offset cookies and then it has
> trouble finding the next entry.
> To make the above loop work correctly for FreeBSD, it needs to be
> re-written to start at the beginning of the directory after each
> unlink().

How about instead we fix FreeBSD to work properly?  Clearly it is not
impossible since the Linux NFS client does work.  What exactly is the
issue?  (Forgive me, I know very little about how VOP_READDIR works
under the hood.)

-GAWollman




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