From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S942037AbXHJVFg (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:05:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755430AbXHJVF2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:05:28 -0400 Received: from relay1.vsu.ru ([62.76.169.14]:55221 "EHLO relay1.vsu.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756259AbXHJVF1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:05:27 -0400 From: Vladimir Volovich To: Trond Myklebust Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nfs - duplicate directory entries References: <87fy2rgpqs.fsf@vvv.vsu.ru> <1186778529.6642.52.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:05:22 +0400 In-Reply-To: <1186778529.6642.52.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (Trond Myklebust's message of "Fri\, 10 Aug 2007 16\:42\:09 -0400") Message-ID: <873ayrgkx9.fsf@vvv.vsu.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "TM" == Trond Myklebust writes: >> i.e. the current directory contains sub-directory 112920 twice, >> sub-directory 112921 twice, etc. - and the inode numbers are the >> same. TM> That can happen if the NFS server doesn't send unique cookies. i have 2 questions: 1) how to debug this, to confirm that this is caused by NFS server not sending unique cookies? (to try to report to the "vendor" of the NFS server) 2) does it make sence to try to gracefully work-around this problem on the linux side? or would it significantly complicate things? Best, v.