On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:55:05PM +0300, Maxim Kozover wrote:

Hi Richard! Tell me, please, is there any chance you have an (unofficial) patch ready or almost ready that removes a protocol limit from guestfs_readdir (returns a large answer in chunks in a loop etc)?

Yes this is one of the very few remaining APIs which has a protocol limit.

I happen to have a need to use libguestfs fuse accessing the directory with a million of files in it, the individual files are accessed ok, but the directory...

This is a genuine bug. Can you file one? If you can get away without using fuse (ie. using the API directly) then a workaround would be to look at how our visitor code works: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/common/visit/visit.c#L7... where it only uses APIs which are unlimited, eg: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/lib/file.c#L507 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v