Re: readdir & bonnie++

["Akshat Aranya" <aaranya@cs.sunysb.edu>]

On 6/4/06, Tomas Hruby <thruby@few.vu.nl> wrote:
> My problem with bonnie happens in a test which counts how many files where
> created. It just call readdir in loop and counts how many entries were
> returned. As far as I understand the bonnie code, there were no files deleted
> yet.
>
> I checked the glibc code (i hope that the correct one) and it seems that the
> loop inside readdir is returned only if there are no more data in the buffer
> and so the getdents is called again. My problem is that there SHOULD be the
> last entry still in the buffer.
>

So, what you're saying is that the getdents() call actually returns
the last entry, but readdir() somehow ignores that last entry?  If
that is the case, I would look at the d_off value for that last entry
for weirdness.


>                 Tomas

-Akshat