NFS: giant filename in readdir

[Herr Fischlin]

Hi!

We are running a C180 (HP-UX 10.20)
exporting a files system using nfs 2.
Everything is fine for HP-UX clients.
But now mounting the file system on
a SUSE 7.3 I receive several
errors saying "giant file name in readdir"
even for rather small directories. In general it works accept for these problems which occure regularly and slow down the Linux system. Using "wsize,size" with 1024 does not solve the problem. An idea?

Merci.

[Eugen Cocalea · Accepted solution]

Hi,

See the link:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9906.1/0228.html

The error is caused because the default NFS_MAXNAMLEN is 255. Get the sources from your kernel, edit the file $SRC_DIR/include/linux/nfs.h and put a bigger value instead of 255.

E.