From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>,
Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>,
"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
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"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] vfs: make fstatat retry on ESTALE errors from getattr call
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:45:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120417154549.GA27426@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120417102035.2236e553@corrin.poochiereds.net>
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:20:35AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Well, it's possible, but it seems pathological to me for a server to do
> that...
>
> Bruce and I were discussing this the other day. It would be good to add
> something like this to the RFCs:
>
> "On a PUTFH, a server SHOULD hold a reference to the filehandle such
For "filehandle" I'd specify "current and saved filehandle".
> that it does not go stale over the life of the compound."
And that's *much* less of a burden on the server than requiring that the
compound execute atomically.
> ...or something along those lines. That's a different matter though and
> not directly related to this. :)
Yes.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-17 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-13 11:25 [PATCH RFC] vfs: make fstatat retry on ESTALE errors from getattr call Jeff Layton
2012-04-13 12:02 ` Jim Rees
2012-04-13 12:09 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20120413150518.GA1987@us.ibm.com>
2012-04-13 15:42 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-13 16:07 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-13 17:10 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-13 17:34 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-13 23:00 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-14 0:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2012-04-15 19:03 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-04-15 19:27 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-16 14:23 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-04-15 19:57 ` Chuck Lever
2012-04-16 11:23 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 11:53 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-16 11:36 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 12:54 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-16 16:04 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 14:44 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-04-16 17:46 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 19:33 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-16 19:43 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 20:25 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-16 23:05 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 11:46 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-17 13:36 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 14:14 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-17 14:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 15:02 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 15:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 16:03 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 15:59 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-17 13:12 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 13:32 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 14:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 14:22 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 14:04 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-17 14:20 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-17 15:45 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2012-04-17 16:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-17 13:39 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-17 14:08 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-17 14:48 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-18 15:16 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-16 19:43 ` Scott Lovenberg
2012-04-16 16:55 ` [PATCH RFC v2] " Jeff Layton
2012-04-18 11:52 ` [PATCH RFC v3] vfs: make fstatat retry once " Jeff Layton
2012-04-20 14:40 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-20 20:18 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-20 20:37 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-04-20 21:13 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-22 5:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-23 12:00 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 13:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-23 13:12 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 13:34 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-23 13:50 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 13:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-23 14:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-23 15:02 ` Chuck Lever
2012-04-23 15:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-23 17:45 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-23 15:16 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 15:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-23 18:59 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-20 21:13 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 14:55 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-23 15:32 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 18:06 ` Steve Dickson
2012-04-23 18:33 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 20:38 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-24 14:50 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-24 15:54 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-24 16:34 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-25 9:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-04-25 12:04 ` Jeff Layton
2012-04-23 17:43 ` Peter Staubach
2012-04-23 19:06 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-04-22 4:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2012-04-23 11:20 ` Jeff Layton
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