Re: Stale file not being refreshed automatically?

[Nathan March <nathan-NuwpVtnOm/s@public.gmane.org>]

On 1/25/2011 2:28 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:
> Does '-e' in perl only do a lookup, or does it result in a 'stat()'
> call? If the latter, then your test is flawed: a stat() is a lookup+a
> getattr, and the latter can definitely return ESTALE when you are
> constantly replacing the file.
>
> Cheers
>    Trond

Hi Trond,

Has any behavior here changed between 2.6.19 and 2.6.32 that you know of?

Testing that perl one liner out with a variety of nfs setups we run:

2.6.11 client vs 2.6.32 server - no error
2.6.11 client vs netapp - no error
2.6.19 client vs 2.6.19 server - no error
2.6.19 client vs netapp - no error
2.6.32 client vs 2.6.32 server - stale file handles
2.6.32 client vs netapp - stale file handles

So it seems to be a client specific change sometime between 2.6.19 and 
2.6.32....

- Nathan