From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] OCFS2: fix for nfs getting stale inode.
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:09:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081023090954.GC1580@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <490036DC.8000406@oracle.com>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:33:32PM +0800, wengang wang wrote:
> Joel Becker wrote:
> > What's the problem other than ESTALE? That's perfectly valid in
> > the world of NFS.
> >
> >
> ESTALE is not a big problem, what is important is that:
> it cause kernel panic during ocfs2_meta_lock_update() at later
> operations when it updates metadata from disk.
This is the bug. Why is a stale inode getting meta_lock called
against it? That's what we should be preventing, no?
Joel
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Joel Becker
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-23 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-23 4:19 [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] OCFS2: fix for nfs getting stale inode wengang wang
2008-10-23 8:16 ` Joel Becker
2008-10-23 8:33 ` wengang wang
2008-10-23 9:09 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2008-10-23 9:22 ` wengang wang
2008-10-24 1:57 ` wengang wang
2008-10-24 2:09 ` wengang wang
2008-10-29 1:03 ` wengang wang
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