From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reinstantiating stale inodes Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:01:51 -0400 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <40893DEF.3010506@RedHat.com> References: <40892507.2030004@RedHat.com> <1082730973.2617.23.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BH37T-0003I7-Ry for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:01:39 -0700 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30) id 1BH37T-0002B9-EA for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:01:39 -0700 To: Trond Myklebust In-Reply-To: <1082730973.2617.23.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Trond Myklebust wrote: >There are several problems here, but the main one is that you have no >guarantees that you are the exclusive user of that dentry. > > True, there are no guarantees the user has exclusive access but what does it matter? Its a stale inode if they try to used its going to fail... >This again means that people who think they have open files on the "old" >inode may suddenly find their program Oopsing or corrupting the new >file. > Again, this new fh is only gotten on getattrs any other ops will still fail with ESTALE... SteveD ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs