Re: [pnfs] [GIT BISECT] first bad commit: 1f36f774 Switch !O_CREAT case to use of do_last()

Al Viro
2010-03-25T10:54:10Z

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:12:31AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>
> > It makes no difference, fails just the same. Would an "strace" help?
>
> It might, especially if you ran it for identical repositories on local
> fs and on NFS; at least that way it would be possible to see where do
> they diverge...

I wonder... What happens if you add
if (error == -EISDIR)
printk("blah: %s", pathname);
right after do_lookup() call in do_last()? That would separate -EISDIR
coming from NFS from the same thing coming from fs/namei.c...