On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 22:33 -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
quoted text
> Trond, good news.  I was able to narrow down the problem to purely the
> client-side, probably dcache/readdir related, and I have a shell script that
> deterministically triggers the problem each time for me (this is a FC6 image
> under Vmware 6.0.1).  Here's a short shell script which reliably triggers
> the "lost files" problem -- I create a file via nfs2 on the client side, and
> sometimes it doesn't show up in readdir, but it is there if you stat it
> directly.

Ah... I got confused as to what you were measuring and where. Looking at
nfs_proc_create(), there is indeed a missing call to
nfs_mark_for_revalidate(). The reason why you need such a call being the
usual one: NFSv2 doesn't provide post-op attributes for the directory.

The patch below ought to fix the problem.

Cheers
  Trond
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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:07:21 -0400
NFSv2: Ensure that the directory metadata gets revalidated on file create

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
---

 fs/nfs/proc.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/proc.c b/fs/nfs/proc.c
index 97669ed..4f80d88 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/proc.c
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ nfs_proc_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *sattr,
 	nfs_fattr_init(&fattr);
 	dprintk("NFS call  create %s\n", dentry->d_name.name);
 	status = rpc_call_sync(NFS_CLIENT(dir), &msg, 0);
+	nfs_mark_for_revalidate(dir);
 	if (status == 0)
 		status = nfs_instantiate(dentry, &fhandle, &fattr);
 	dprintk("NFS reply create: %d\n", status);


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