[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] OCFS2: fix for nfs getting stale inode.

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:19:21PM +0800, wengang wang wrote:
> Ocfs2 supports exporting. 
> 
> PROBLEM:
> There are 2 problems
> (1) Current version of ocfs2_get_dentry() may read from disk
> the inode WITHOUT any cross cluster lock. This may lead to load a stale inode.
> (2) for deleting an inode, ocfs2_remove_inode() doesn't sync/checkpoint to disk.
> This also may lead ocfs2_get_dentry() from other node read out stale inode.
> 
<snip> 
> SOLUTION:
> (I) adds cross cluster lock for deletion and reading inode from nfs. Deletion
> takes EX lock which blocks readings on the same inode block; readings take PR
> lock which blocks deleting the same inode block.
> (II) checkpoints disk updates for deletion within the cross cluster lock.

	Cluster locking in an already slow path really bothers me,
especially since I gotta believe we already have the state to do this
locally.
	What's the problem other than ESTALE?  That's perfectly valid in
the world of NFS.

Joel

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