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From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
	nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Reinstantiating stale inodes
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:08:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040423150850.GX3491@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <482A3FA0050D21419C269D13989C61130435DF4D@lavender-fe.eng.netapp.com>

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:48:11AM -0700, Lever, Charles wrote:
> there appears to be a real problem when restoring from a backup,
> or using rsync.  the file size and the mtime stay precisely the
> same, but the file handle changes.  i'm not sure anything can be
> done about this in NFSv2/3?

Well, namei_open could interpret an ESTALE error as "retry the
lookup and open, ignoring the cache".
I think this would solve 99% of all problems.

Olaf
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-23 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-23 14:48 [PATCH] Reinstantiating stale inodes Lever, Charles
2004-04-23 15:00 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-23 16:16   ` Steve Dickson
2004-04-23 15:08 ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-23 16:16 Lever, Charles
2004-04-23 16:27 ` Steve Dickson
2004-04-23 15:17 Lever, Charles
2004-04-23 14:15 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
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

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