From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:09:54 -0700 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] OCFS2: fix for nfs getting stale inode. In-Reply-To: <490036DC.8000406@oracle.com> References: <200810230419.m9N4JLpn012453@localhost.localdomain> <20081023081650.GA1580@mail.oracle.com> <490036DC.8000406@oracle.com> Message-ID: <20081023090954.GC1580@mail.oracle.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.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 -- "I inject pure kryptonite into my brain. It improves my kung fu, and it eases the pain." Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker at oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127