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Bug 398871 - readdir loop & duplicate cookie on NFS (hash collisions in highly populated directories)
Summary: readdir loop & duplicate cookie on NFS (hash collisions in highly populated d...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers
URL: http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=13128...
Whiteboard: 3.4.0
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Reported: 2012-01-14 12:27 UTC by vm666
Modified: 2012-06-22 18:56 UTC (History)
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Description vm666 2012-01-14 12:27:37 UTC 
I got the following message on a directory that contains about 51200 files.

NFS: directory foo/bar contains a readdir loop.Please contact your server vendor. [...] has duplicate cookie 1800033985

The problem has be reported before on other distros and a patch was proposed.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=131281788003178&w=2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739222
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2012-01-16 19:37:49 UTC 
this is a bug in the kernel side nfs.  i don't see us doing anything here other than waiting for upstream to merge patches into the kernel.
Comment 2 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev 2012-06-01 22:22:48 UTC 
Does this still occure with 3.4.0 kernels?