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From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Reinstantiating stale inodes
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:08:50 +0200
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:48:11AM -0700, Lever, Charles wrote:
> there appears to be a real problem when restoring from a backup,
> or using rsync.  the file size and the mtime stay precisely the
> same, but the file handle changes.  i'm not sure anything can be
> done about this in NFSv2/3?

Well, namei_open could interpret an ESTALE error as "retry the
lookup and open, ignoring the cache".
I think this would solve 99% of all problems.

Olaf
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