Bug#599823: linux-2.6: XEN and NFS causes duplicate filenames with large directories

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Jason Kendall <jakendall@gmail.com> writes:

>> My initial test case is in the ticket here: 
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599823#79
>>
>> When I used your test case, I got duplicate files.
>>
>> So, to narrow it down,
[...]
>> Which kernel do you have on this client - what are your NFS mount
>> options for this directory?
>
> linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64      2.6.32-27
>
> nfs:/home /home nfs rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=524288,wsize=524288,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.7.2.3,mountvers=3,mountport=56804,mountproto=udp,addr=10.7.2.3 0 0

Thanks.  So now I'm in suspense: did you ever figure out why there are
duplicate directory entries in your setup and not in Timo's?

Curious,
Jonathan