Pb xfs on linux 2.3.99-pre3

[Love]

Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc at mcc.ac.uk> writes:

> > I also made a tar file of this version in
> > ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/arla/snap/arla-ab.tar.gz
> > (aka /afs/stacken.kth.se/ftp/pub/arla/snap/arla-ab.tar.gz).
> > 
> > Try it out if you can, and do tell us how it works for you.
> 
> I'm trying out arla-ab with 2.3.99-pre5.  I do have one problem:
> Some directories, which are populated on real AFS clients and
> with arla-0.32 on 2.2.14 machines are completely empty on
> 2.3.99-pre5 with arla-ab.  The files just don't appear.

What size does the directories have on the `ab' release (ls -ld .) ?  Do
you get any oopses (dmesg) when it happens ?

Its probably related to that the new directory code read its data out of
the buffer-cache.

Love