Very strange behaviour listing a directory

[R.O.]

Hi all,

This is a weird thing. We have a directory mounted over cifs from windows to hp-ux 11.11. In a particular subdirectory there are more than 400.000 files and they are seen from the windows box. But, in the unix we only see 62 files. We have found out a file is causing the
problem. If this file is removed, we can list all the files. BUT if we create a file with the same name, the ll command only
list 62 files again. We can create files with other names and it works. The name of the file is similar to others in the same subdirectory. And to get the thing worse, sometimes the ll works when the file exists and sometimes it only shows 62 files.....

HPUX:/path/path/path#touch filename.001

HPUX:/path/path/path#ll filename.001
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 0 Feb 24 08:45 filename.001

HPUX:/path/path/path#ll |wc -l
62

HPUX:/path/path/path#rm filename.001

HPUX:/path/path/path#ll |wc -l
449260

HPUX:/path/path/path#

Any idea what is going on ?

Regards,

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

What happen when executes "ll -a"?

Rgds

[Turgay Cavdar]

Is this problem specific to this server? Others have the same problem? What is your cifs client version?

[R.O.]

Hi,

There is nothing different with "ls -a", except the "." and ".." entries. The cifs version is:

/opt/cifsclient/sbin/cifsclientd:
$Revision: 92453-07 linker linker crt0.o B.11.37 031205 $
HP CIFS Client - Version A.02.02.01

It only happens in a subdirectory and with a file name.

Regards,

[Dennis Handly]

Is this related to the readdir problem with NFS?
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Networking/NFS-readdir-failed-for-server-jserver-RPC-Timed-out/m-p/3947058#M39843

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Security/Not-able-to-find-using-wildcard-mask-on-NFS-mounted-directory/m-p/5233726#M18537

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/NFS-Can-t-see-files/m-p/4569311#M372481