On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:33:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Urgh... How long ago had it started? It sounds like buffer/page cache
> > aliasing. Was it there before 2.3.7?
>
> Speaking of aliasing, 2.3.x has had a problem for a while where 'ls -l'
> will show _two_ directory entries for a single file. This is a
> temporary problem which always corrects itself 5-10 seconds later -- and
> 'ls -l' looks normal after that.
>
> So far this has happened to me only for normal files recently
> copied/manipulated, and only on NFS filesystem. That last data point
> may be a red herring though, as my environment is very heavily NFS'd
> anyway.
>
> This has been around for quite a while in 2.3.x, and I have never seen
> the behavior in 2.2.x. I reported this once before a while back, but
> since the problem always goes away it was never a big deal.
I've seen this is well...And this time it's very reproducible, too. :)
I NFS mount my laptop's filesytem so I can read my digital camera's flash
card via the PCMCIA adapter, and when I first do a directory listing on
the mount point, I always see two of the first entry. This happens in
tab-expand as well, and always goes away the second time.
Simon-
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