From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Cc: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fat: fix ESTALE errors
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:25:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120818132524.GW23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345282899-7534-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 05:41:39AM -0400, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
>
> This patch-set eliminates the client side ESTALE errors when
> a FAT partition exported over NFS has its dentries evicted
> from the cache.
>
> One of the reasons for this error is lack of permanent inode
> numbers on FAT which makes it difficult to construct persistent
> file handles.This can be overcome by using the on-disk location
> of the directory entries (i_pos) as the inode number.
The hell it can. You've just made them unstable on rename(2).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-18 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-18 9:41 [PATCH 0/4] fat: fix ESTALE errors Namjae Jeon
2012-08-18 13:25 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-08-18 14:09 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-08-20 4:19 ` Namjae Jeon
2012-08-20 20:52 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-21 5:19 ` Namjae Jeon
2012-08-21 6:41 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-08-21 10:58 ` Namjae Jeon
2012-08-21 21:11 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2012-08-22 6:14 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-08-22 6:17 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2012-08-21 13:20 ` Steven J. Magnani
2012-08-21 18:02 ` Ravishankar
2012-08-20 4:21 ` Namjae Jeon
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