File explorer fails to show contents of mounted directories

[Bongani]

Hi,

I recently attempted to upgrade to code-server 3.5.0 (and before this to code-server 3.4.1), from code-server version 2.1692-vsc1.39.2. With both versions I had picked that my mounted (fusermount) directories where available in the explorer, but when I clicked the directory it did not show the contents of the folder. I was however able to run ls in the terminal and see the contents of the mounted directory. There was no error in the logs why the mounted directory did not show the contents.

A bit of investigation today relieved a bit more when I ran ls -la on the mounted directory.

As you can see from the screenshot, there is folder/directory that appears to be at fault. Once I ran mkdir tf, the VS Code explorer was able to show the contents of the mounted directory. So I guess in the older version of code-server, the explorer was failing silently and not showing the faulty folder tf, but now with newer releases the entire mounted directory is failing to show.

My first question would be, is there a property I can set that will ignore future cases were code-server can fail silently on faulty folders and show the entire mounted directory? If not, can this be reported as bug instead in order to get it fix?

[code-asher]

Do you have any idea how the tf entry was created? If we can recreate it that'll help us narrow down the bug.

[Bongani]

Hi @code-asher ,

I believe that tf folder was created by tensorflow, while running a notebook.

I do have more information though. It appears that it was a mounting issue from s3fs-fuse which caused some folders to appear that way. We switched to goofys for some testing and no longer get that issue were a folder/directory has ?????? with some folders. Now the VS Code explorer with codes-server 3.5.0 can show the directories.

I'm not sure if there is a way to replicate creating a folder with ???????, if you know of one I can try test it out on my side.

[code-asher]

I'm not sure how to replicate it but I'll poke around the explorer code and see if there's anything that could cause issues. My guess is if something fails to stat then the whole explorer just gives up or something like that.

[Bongani]

@code-asher did you have any luck? Even though goofys seemed like a good filey system replacement it overwhelmed our system, so we had to fall back to s3fs-fuse. And now stuck at the same problem again.

[code-asher]

It's on my list but I haven't had a chance yet. Does the problem persist
with 3.6.0?