files disappearing from ls on NFS

[Rick Macklem]

Hartmut Brandt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've updated one of my -current machines this week (previous update
> was in
> february). Now I see a strange effect (it seems only on NFS mounts):
> ls or
> even echo * will list only some files (strange enough the first files
> from
> the normal, alphabetically ordered list). If I change something in the
> directory (delete a file or create a new one) for some time the
> complete
> listing will appear but after sime time (seconds to a minute or so)
> again
> only part of the files is listed.
> 
> A ktrace on ls /usr/src/lib/libc/gen shows that getdirentries is
> called
> only once (returning 4096). For a full listing getdirentries is called
> 5
> times with the last returning 0.
> 
> I can still open files that are not listed if I know their name,
> though.
> 
> The NFS server is a Windows 2008 server with an OpenText NFS Server
> which
> works without problems to all the other FreeBSD machines.
> 
> So what could that be?
> 
Just in case..is the NFS mount in a union mount by any chance?
(There is a known bug for NFS readdir under a union mount, because the
 NFS client readdir isn't setting the eofflag. Someone has sent me a patch
 that looks fine, but it hasn't been checked into head yet.)

I'll also grep a head kernel to check to see if anything else (except the
NFS server) uses the eofflag argument to VOP_READDIR().

rick

> Regards,
> harti
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