Bug#714974: [JunkMail] Re: [PATCH] jfs: fix readdir cookie incompatibility with NFSv4
On 8/17/2013 2:01 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 14:26 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 at 15:48, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>>> This patch replaces the one I posted yesterday. I like this better since
>>> it doesn't require fixing existing on-disk cookies or skipping a
>>> position in the in-inode index table.
>>
>> Thanks. Applied to 3.11-rc5 and tested, no more "readdir loop" messages
>> and with unique inode numbers, great!
>>
>> Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
>
> Karl and Jonathan, could you test the attached backport to 3.2?
>
> (Instructions for rebuilding the Debian kernel package are at:
> <http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official>)
>
> Ben.
>
When I read this the other day I thought It was a great idea, but when
sleeping on it I have this gut feeling that somewhere there is a
jfs_dirent->position--; missing but I don't have enough familiarity with
the code to begin to guess where. Hopefully I am wrong.
ben
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