Re: [Bug-tar] an exactly duplicated file was created by tar

[Bernd Schubert]

On 08/30/2011 01:24 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jim Meyering<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > This may be due to an NFS problem.
> >
> > Here's a case where readdir would return the same name,
> > yet a new pointer, each time, forever:
> >
> >      NFS readdir never returns NULL when processing directories with very many\
> >        entries (i.e.,>300K)
> >      http://bugzilla.redhat.com/719749
>
> This does not look like a NFS problem but like a Linux problem....
>
> If it was an NFS problem, it would happen regardless of the implementation of
> NFS server and NFS client.


I guess the underlying file system is ext3/ext4. If so, ext3/ext4 and 
NFS need to be patched. The reason then is a compatibility issue with 
NFSv2 and 32-bit user space (32 bit long values from telldir() ). We 
also already run into it with FhGFS.

Patches:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg23429.html



Cheers,
Bernd