Re: 3.17.0+ files disappearing after playing old dos game on nfsroot laptop

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Hans de Bruin <jmdebruin@xmsnet.nl> writes:

> On 05/01/2015 06:35 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Hans de Bruin <jmdebruin@xmsnet.nl> writes:
>>
>>>> I expect what needs to happen is to confirm that nfs directory entry
>>>> revalidation is buggy, and at least for the short term re-add the nfs
>>>> logic that will avoid dropping a dentry if it is a mount point, or
>>>> path to a mount point, to avoid the nfs bugs.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ok, I will go in waiting mode.
>>
>> I dropped the ball on this but it looks like someone else hit the
>> problem and the following two commits fixed this issue:
>>
>> Can you confirm that things are working again?
>
> I noticed the issue was gone in one of the previous releases. I was
> wondering whether you changed something or not. Sorry for not
> notifying you.

No problem, and thank you for confirming the regression is fixed.
One more thing I can now mark off my list.

Eric