Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: >> This may be due to an NFS problem. >> >> Here's a case where readdir would return the same name, >> yet a new pointer, each time, forever: >> >> NFS readdir never returns NULL when processing directories with very >> many\ >> entries (i.e., >300K) >> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/719749 > > This does not look like a NFS problem but like a Linux problem....
The problem I referenced above arises when using NFS with ext3/ext4, but not when using a local file system. Saying it is an NFS problem does not preclude Linux involvement. > If it was an NFS problem, it would happen regardless of the implementation of > NFS server and NFS client. Classify it however you'd like. For more details, see this: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg23429.html
