From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reinstantiating stale inodes
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:21:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40895096.9020507@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1082737270.2617.80.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
Trond Myklebust wrote:
>Even if you do solve the above race, you still have another bug: you are
>changing the object that the "struct file" refers to, and hence at best
>you are going to cause all the existing open files to start reading
>from/writing to the new file (which is a bug!) instead of returning
>ESTALE.
>
>
Ok... this is the silver bullet that got me... :(
Question: if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) < 2)
can I assume that the current process is the only one
attached to the dentry and it would be safe reinstantiate
the dentry?
SteveD.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-23 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-23 14:15 [PATCH] Reinstantiating stale inodes Steve Dickson
2004-04-23 14:33 ` Olaf Kirch
2004-04-23 15:50 ` Steve Dickson
2004-04-23 17:55 ` Olaf Kirch
2004-04-23 18:43 ` Steve Dickson
2004-04-23 18:50 ` Olaf Kirch
2004-04-23 20:07 ` Steve Dickson
2004-04-23 14:36 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-23 16:01 ` Steve Dickson
2004-04-23 16:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-23 17:21 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2004-04-23 17:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-23 19:14 ` Steve Dickson
[not found] ` <40892DC0.1010001@redhat.com>
2004-04-23 16:04 ` Steve Dickson
2004-05-01 16:13 ` Steve Dickson
2004-05-01 19:25 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-01 23:57 ` Steve Dickson
2004-05-02 0:22 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-02 3:19 ` Steve Dickson
2004-05-02 3:28 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-03 19:50 ` Steve Dickson
2004-05-03 20:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-03 20:33 ` Steve Dickson
2004-05-03 21:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-04 19:05 ` Steve Dickson
2004-05-06 17:39 ` Steve Dickson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-23 14:48 Lever, Charles
2004-04-23 15:00 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-23 16:16 ` Steve Dickson
2004-04-23 15:08 ` Olaf Kirch
2004-04-23 15:17 Lever, Charles
2004-04-23 16:16 Lever, Charles
2004-04-23 16:27 ` Steve Dickson
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