Re: NFS client show nothing for "ls" command.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:49:24 +0800 gshan <gshan@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Recently, I got a funny problem that my NFS client can't show some of 
> mounted directories. These directories that can't be showed by "ls" 
> command have great deals of files.
> 
> For example. I have a directory on NFS server log and there are 69 
> files. I can't show it's child files through NFS.
> 
> ---On NFS server---
> bash-2.05b# ls
> 1   13  17  20  24  28  31  35  39  42  46  5   53  57  60  64  68  9
> 10  14  18  21  25  29  32  36  4   43  47  50  54  58  61  65  69
> 11  15  19  22  26  3   33  37  40  44  48  51  55  59  62  66  7
> 12  16  2   23  27  30  34  38  41  45  49  52  56  6   63  67  8
> 
> ---On NFS client---
> # ls
> #
> 
> After I delete one file from NFS server side, everything becomes OK.
> 
> ---On NFS server---
> bash-2.05b# rm 69
> bash-2.05b# ls
> 1   13  17  20  24  28  31  35  39  42  46  5   53  57  60  64  68
> 10  14  18  21  25  29  32  36  4   43  47  50  54  58  61  65  7
> 11  15  19  22  26  3   33  37  40  44  48  51  55  59  62  66  8
> 12  16  2   23  27  30  34  38  41  45  49  52  56  6   63  67  9
> 
> ---On NFS client---
> # ls
> 1   13  17  20  24  28  31  35  39  42  46  5   53  57  60  64  68
> 10  14  18  21  25  29  32  36  4   43  47  50  54  58  61  65  7
> 11  15  19  22  26  3   33  37  40  44  48  51  55  59  62  66  8
> 12  16  2   23  27  30  34  38  41  45  49  52  56  6   63  67  9
> #
> 
> I also scrapped the packets through ethereal and saw that packet sent at 
> case 1) isn't valid. It only has 3 fileds: ., .. and last. I suppose the 
> problem came from NFS server side because we can't received valid NFS 
> packet for such directories with plenty of files. Anybody knew what's 
> the root cause?
> 

what kernel are you running?
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