NFS (& amd?) dysfunction descending a hierarchy

[Kostik Belousov]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 02:20:05PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Kostik Belousov wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:01:10AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >>On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:15:38PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >>>I seem to have a fairly- (though not deterministly so) reproducible
> >>>mode of failure with an NFS-mounted directory hierarchy:  An attempt to
> >>>traverse a "sufficiently large" hierarchy (e.g., via "tar zcpf" or "rm
> >>>-fr") will fail to "visit" some subdirectories, typically apparently
> >>>acting as if the subdirectories in question do not actually exist
> >>>(despite the names having been returned in the output of a previous
> >>>readdir()).
> >>>... 
> >
> >Did you saw me previous answer ? Supposed patch for your problem was
> >committed to head as r185557, and MFCed to 7 in r185796, and to
> >7.1 in r185801.
> >
> >Please test with latest sources.
> 
> 
> did you notice that he tested with latest -current and releng 7?

Yes, and failure mode on the HEAD looks like a different issue.
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