[Pvfs2-developers] question RE readdir rewind bug

[Phil Carns]

Walt and I continued this discussion off list.  I think it can be 
narrowed down to a specific bug in 2.7.1.  This is the patch that fixed 
it, which will also be available in the next release:

http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/rdiff/PVFS?csid=MAIN:pcarns:20080514170124&u&N

-Phil

Phil Carns wrote:
> What version of PVFS are you testing (or is it trunk)?  We have had a 
> couple of permutations of this bug in the past, but I hope it is sorted 
> out now in trunk.
> 
> -Phil
> 
> Walter Ligon wrote:
>>
>> Hey, I was looking at the "readdir rewind bug" and wondering, could 
>> this be responsible for reporting the same files multiple times in a 
>> readdir?
>>
>> We are seeing a situation when we get up about 70,000 files in a 
>> directory that readdir seems to return each file 3 times.  I don't 
>> know if this is a new bug, or an artifact of an old one.
>>
>> We have test code that does this.
>>
>> Walt
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