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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: bernd-schubert@gmx.de
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: protocol question
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:24:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153916650.5656.27.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1153916394.5656.23.camel@localhost>

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 08:20 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Right. The inode generation number changes when the inode number is
> reused. After that, any NFS rpc request containing the filehandle with
> the old generation number should receive an immediate NFSERR3_STALE.

Oops. Actually, it would be more correct to say that the filehandle is
invalidated immediately once the file has been deleted on the server.

The generation number is there in order to ensure that the old
filehandle is not 'resurrected' when the inode number is reused.

Cheers,
  Trond


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-28 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-26 10:47 (no subject) Bernd Schubert
2006-07-26 11:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-07-26 11:56   ` protocol question Bernd Schubert
2006-07-26 12:19     ` Trond Myklebust
2006-07-26 12:24       ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-07-26 15:32       ` Bernd Schubert

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