Re: [fuse-devel] bug in fuse + sshfs

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> I just found a strange bug while using sshfs.
> 
> When writing to a file (on a sshfs-mounted directory) and
> immediately reading back (verify) the written data, sometimes the
> compare fails. I read fuse and sshfs changelogs and found no entry
> that would probably fix this problem.
> 
> You can find a tiny test program below. Could anyone verify that
> problem on a recent version of fuse + shfs ?

Yes, it seems to affect all versions.

The culprit is the readahead code.  Using -ono_readahead seems to fix
it.  

Thanks a lot for the report and the test program!

Miklos