From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Karl Schmidt <karl@xtronics.com>,
Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>,
jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] [PATCH] jfs: fix readdir cookie incompatibility with NFSv4
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:27:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <521BD663.9070805@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1308241517240.21301@trent.utfs.org>
On 08/24/2013 05:21 PM, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 at 15:48, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>> This patch replaces the one I posted yesterday. I like this better since
>> it doesn't require fixing existing on-disk cookies or skipping a
>> position in the in-inode index table.
>>
>> NFSv4 reserves readdir cookie values 0-2 for special entries (. and ..),
>> but jfs allows a value of 2 for a non-special entry. This incompatibility
>> can result in the nfs client reporting a readdir loop.
>>
>> This patch doesn't change the value stored internally, but adds one to
>> the value exposed to the iterate method.
>
> Out of curiosity, will this land on 3.11?
Just sent a pull request to Linus. Once it's picked up, I'll submit a
patch to the stable trees.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-26 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-08 1:13 NFS 'readdir loop' error on JFS Ben Hutchings
2013-07-08 14:02 ` bjschuma
2013-07-08 15:43 ` Karl Schmidt
2013-08-09 20:44 ` Karl Schmidt
2013-08-10 7:28 ` [Jfs-discussion] " Christian Kujau
2013-08-10 19:43 ` Karl Schmidt
2013-08-12 8:18 ` Christian Kujau
2013-08-12 8:29 ` Christian Kujau
2013-08-12 16:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-08-12 20:04 ` Christian Kujau
2013-08-15 3:54 ` [PATCH] jfs: avoid misuse of cookie value of 2 Dave Kleikamp
2013-08-15 4:29 ` Christian Kujau
2013-08-15 7:09 ` Christian Kujau
2013-08-15 13:38 ` Dave Kleikamp
2013-08-15 20:48 ` [PATCH] jfs: fix readdir cookie incompatibility with NFSv4 Dave Kleikamp
2013-08-15 21:26 ` Christian Kujau
2013-08-15 22:09 ` Dave Kleikamp
2013-08-17 20:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-08-19 19:11 ` [JunkMail] " ben
2013-08-29 22:48 ` Jonathan McDowell
2013-09-05 3:40 ` Bug#714974: " Jonathan McDowell
2013-08-24 22:21 ` [Jfs-discussion] " Christian Kujau
2013-08-26 22:27 ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]
2013-08-15 13:38 ` [PATCH] jfs: avoid misuse of cookie value of 2 J. Bruce Fields
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