Re: [Bug-tar] an exactly duplicated file was created by tar

[Bernd Schubert]

On 08/30/2011 01:24 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Jim Meyering<j...@meyering.net>  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....

If it was an NFS problem, it would happen regardless of the implementation of
NFS server and NFS client.


I guess the underlying file system is ext3/ext4. If so, ext3/ext4 and 
NFS need to be patched. The reason then is a compatibility issue with 
NFSv2 and 32-bit user space (32 bit long values from telldir() ). We 
also already run into it with FhGFS.

Patches:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg23429.html



Cheers,
Bernd