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From: fanchaoting <fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: "bfields@fieldses.org" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nfs cache bug (when server delete the file ,nfs client can read file also)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:41:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B300EC.5020707@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121123172056.GA8776@fieldses.org>

bfields@fieldses.org 写道:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:00:13PM +0800, fanchaoting wrote:
>> Myklebust, Trond 写道:
>>> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 13:23 +0800, fanchaoting wrote:
>>>> Myklebust, Trond 写道:
>>>>> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 12:18 +0800, fanchaoting wrote:
>>>>>> I think  when the nfs server delete the file ,
>>>>>> the  server should notice the nfs client,
>>>>>> but the upstream kernel does't this.
>>>>> So is this a problem with the client or the server? In other words, if
>>>>> you use a different server/client combination, do you see a different
>>>>> result?
>>>>>
>>>> I think that the server has the problem .when the server deletes the file ,
>>>> it should notice the client immediately.
>>> There is no notification mechanism in NFS; on open(), the client is
>>> supposed to revalidate its cached information and the server is supposed
>>> to return an ESTALE error if the filehandle is no longer valid. Either
>>> one of these 2 mechanisms (client revalidation or server reply) could be
>>> going wrong here, which is why I'm asking.
>> I found J. Bruce Fields's patch(break delegations on unlink)  maybe solve this problem .
>> But I did't found it in the upstream kernel.
> 
> Yes, still working on getting that merged.  Next step is probably to
> rebase it on top of jlayton's ESTALE patches, assuming those will go in
> first.  In theory they could make 3.8 but that may be optimistic.
> 

Yes, when I applyed the patch, this problem was solved.
I found when server deleted the file , it can return 
"DELEGRETURN" to the nfs client.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-26  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-23  4:18 nfs cache bug (when server delete the file ,nfs client can read file also) fanchaoting
2012-11-23  5:11 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-11-23  5:23   ` fanchaoting
2012-11-23  5:36     ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-11-23  6:00       ` fanchaoting
2012-11-23 17:20         ` bfields
2012-11-26  5:41           ` fanchaoting [this message]
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2012-11-23  4:32 fanchaoting

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