[PVFS-users] Re: FileZilla with pvfs

[Rob Ross]

Applied; thanks!

Rob

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Murali Vilayannur wrote:

> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> You are right! Attached a patch that fixes the problem with sftp's 
> directory listing.
> Hope this helps Hsieh.
> 
> Thanks
> Murali
> 
> P.S: The attached test program is a simulation of sftps ls behaviour
> Compile it and run as follows
> 
> ./a.out <any mounted filesystem path> should print exactly 1 directory 
> listing. With a PVFS mounted file system you would see 10 duplicate 
> directory listings.
> With this patch, the test program (and hence the behaviour of sftp)
> starts working fine.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Rob Ross wrote:
> 
> > It would be interesting to get an strace of the sftp server so that we can 
> > see what is going wrong.  Clearly there is something a little off, either 
> > an assumption that the sftp server is making about directory read 
> > semantics, or something that we haven't gotten quite right.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> > 
> > > Thus spake Hsieh Tsan Lung:
> > > > 
> > > > Under Linux version 2.4.20-28.7smp, it has a command /usr/bin/sftp
> > > > [root at cafadmin root]# sftp MY_PC_IP
> > > > Connecting to MY_PC_IP...
> > > > root at MY_PC_IP's password:
> > > > sftp> cd /var/www/html/pvfs
> > > > sftp> ls
> > > > Once I execute command ls, it will show the list of files and directories.
> > > > But this list will not end.
> > > > 
> > > > What I mean is that this list will be displayed in a loop, No ending.
> > > > 
> > > > So this is why FileZilla is stoped when it execute ls.
> > > 
> > > I can confirm that this occurs, however my instinct is that it is not a
> > > PVFS issue, but rather some oddity in the way that the sftp server reads
> > > a directory listing.  ls, ftp servers, web servers all can get a
> > > directory listing on PVFS without being confused, so it seems that sftp
> > > is the only thing which can't.
> > 
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