Re: NFS caching bug is back

[David Warren <warren@atmos.washington.edu>]

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One more thing.
If you create a new file on the server (or any system writing to it), 
the client sees that the directory has changed, it sees the new file, 
but it still doesn't see that the old file has changed.

e.g
rm ddd
echo 1234 > ddd
echo 12345 >yyy

It sees the directory update, yyy and the old ddd

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 11:06 -0700, David Warren wrote:
>
>   
>> I don't know that much about the inner workings of the NFS protocol,
>> but considering that the inode has been removed and replaced by a new
>> one shouldn't all the return values from the access request be 0? It
>> seems odd that read, modify, extend and execute are allowed for a
>> nonexistent object.
>>     
>
> The filehandle should normally be invalidated and any attempt by the
> client to use it should result in an ESTALE error. The exception would
> be if a hard link to the file still exists somewhere on the filesystem
> (which didn't seem to be the case in your test).
>
> Irrespective of whether or not the file still exists somewhere else, the
> mtime on the parent directory _will_ change when you unlink the file.
> The client is supposed to pick up on this and re-issue a LOOKUP and/or
> OPEN for the file, at which point the server should reply with an ENOENT
> or with the new file and its filehandle in something like your testcase.
>
> My immediate advice would be to take the whole filesystem offline and
> fsck it just in order to be sure that there are no corruption that might
> be confusing the NFS server.
>
> Cheers
>   Trond
>   

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