NFS (& amd?) dysfunction descending a hierarchy

[Kostik Belousov]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:01:10AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:15:38PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> > I seem to have a fairly- (though not deterministly so) reproducible
> > mode of failure with an NFS-mounted directory hierarchy:  An attempt to
> > traverse a "sufficiently large" hierarchy (e.g., via "tar zcpf" or "rm
> > -fr") will fail to "visit" some subdirectories, typically apparently
> > acting as if the subdirectories in question do not actually exist
> > (despite the names having been returned in the output of a previous
> > readdir()).
> > ... 
> 

Did you saw me previous answer ? Supposed patch for your problem was
committed to head as r185557, and MFCed to 7 in r185796, and to
7.1 in r185801.

Please test with latest sources.
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