Hello!

   So the annoying problem with readdir not working on hostfs (on 2.6 host
   kernel only for me) was finally hunted to memory allocation
   problem during opendir.

   The patch below is a working and tested attempt at fixing it.
   It is againt 2.4.20-something, but is pretty straightforward and
   probably should apply everywhere else.

Bye,
    Oleg