[Gluster-users] incomplete listing of a directory, sometimes getdents loops until out of memory

[Anand Avati]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:04 AM, John Brunelle
<john_brunelle at harvard.edu>wrote:

> Thanks, Jeff!  I ran readdir.c on all 23 bricks on the gluster nfs
> server to which my test clients are connected (one client that's
> working, and one that's not; and I ran on those, too).  The results
> are attached.
>
> The values it prints are all well within 32 bits, *except* for one
> that's suspiciously the max 32-bit signed int:
>
> $ cat readdir.out.* | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | tail
> 0x000000000000fd59
> 0x000000000000fd6b
> 0x000000000000fd7d
> 0x000000000000fd8f
> 0x000000000000fda1
> 0x000000000000fdb3
> 0x000000000000fdc5
> 0x000000000000fdd7
> 0x000000000000fde8
> 0x000000007fffffff
>
> That outlier is the same subdirectory on all 23 bricks.  Could this be
> the issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John



0x7ffffffff is the EOF marker. You should find that as last entry in
_every_ directory.

Avati
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