Duplicate files on NFS shares

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Duplicate files on NFS shares.
  • When listing a directory, the directory listing will fail after listing some of the files in the directory with:

The following message is output on NFS client.

kernel: NFS: directory /foo contains a readdir loop.Please contact your server vendor.  The file: bar.txt has duplicate cookie 786077316

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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