When listing a directory on an NFS share, directory listing fails half way through with ‘ls: reading directory .: Too many levels of symbolic links

Disable the dir_index filesystem feature on the filesystem that is being exported from the NFS server.

root# tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/sdXY, where sdXY is your device.

To re-enable the dir_index feature use the command:

root# tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/sdXY, where sdXY is your device.