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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



  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

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