From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@parallab.uib.no>,
ML-linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Wayne Scott <wscott@bitmover.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch
Date: 22 Oct 2001 11:44:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pu7gggbf.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016a01c15831$ef51c5c0$5c044589@legato.com> <m33d4gjaoa.fsf@linux.local> <20011020171730.A28057@parallab.uib.no> <3BD28673.1060302@sap.com> <20011021093547.A24227@work.bitmover.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011021093547.A24227@work.bitmover.com>
Hi Larry,
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
> One of the engineers here has also seen this. The root cause is
> that readdir() is returning a file multiple times. We've seen it on
> tmpfs. We also have seen in in NFS and had a workaround, the
> workaround depended that the file would be returned twice right next
> to each other and that's not the case in tmpfs. wscott@bitmover.com
> can provide you with the details of his machine config, here's the
> mail he sent a while back about it:
tmpfs does not know anything about directory handling. It uses
generic_read_dir and dcache_readdir. So this must be a bug in the vfs
layer. Al, what do you say?
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-22 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-19 0:06 Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch David E. Weekly
2001-10-19 0:22 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-10-19 1:26 ` safemode
2001-10-19 5:12 ` Daniel T. Chen
2001-10-19 8:28 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-10-20 15:17 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2001-10-21 8:25 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-10-21 10:07 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2001-10-20 22:35 ` wild pointer!!!!! Kalyan
2001-10-21 12:21 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-21 12:15 ` Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch safemode
[not found] ` <E15vHVx-0001Nc-00@ii.uib.no>
2001-10-21 12:34 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2001-10-21 12:53 ` safemode
[not found] ` <E15vI6n-0001oC-00@ii.uib.no>
2001-10-21 13:10 ` bk regression fails on tmpfs /tmp, was: " Jan-Frode Myklebust
2001-10-21 13:36 ` safemode
2001-10-21 16:35 ` Larry McVoy
2001-10-21 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-21 20:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-10-22 17:03 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-22 17:12 ` Larry McVoy
2001-10-22 17:29 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-23 5:25 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-22 9:44 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-10-22 10:01 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-22 13:29 ` Wayne Scott
2001-10-22 17:31 ` bill davidsen
2001-10-30 17:29 ` Theodore Tso
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m3pu7gggbf.fsf@linux.local \
--to=cr@sap.com \
--cc=janfrode@parallab.uib.no \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=lm@bitmover.com \
--cc=viro@math.psu.edu \
--cc=wscott@bitmover.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox