Re: 2.5: NFS troubles

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 02:18, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Trond Myklebust <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > The 2.5.66 ext3 code still has some issues with respect to NFS readdir
> > cookies.
> 
> It might do.  I have Ted's htree/NFS fixes in there though.
> 
> Felipe, please do 
> 
> 	dumpe2fs /dev/hdXX | grep features
> 
> if it shows dir_index then it might be an ext3 problem.  If not then it is
> probably an NFS problem.
> 
> If it does have dir_index set then please run
> 
> 	tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/hdXX
> 
> and reboot and retest.

Wonderful, Andrew... You were right. Disabling H/Tree indexes solved the
problem! Anything else?

PS: I previously solved the problem by mounting the filesystem as ext2
instead, but now it seems to be working pretty well with ext3 (at least,
I can't reproduce the hang I described in my previous message).

Thanks!

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