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As I understand, on READDIR the glusterfs server reports the gfid of the shadow linkto file to the client, and subsequent file usage will report the correct gfid, leading to the mismatch.
I'll investigate what the issue is.
You suggest that the FUSE implementation should filter out ESTALE by inssuing another LOOKUP? I can implement this, but I have trouble to understand why you have a bug report on this problem if Linux FUSE does that.
The bug is there to fix the non-compliance to the expected behaviour documented above under certain conditions. The explained behaviour itself is not a bug. I referred you to that bug because it is related to the ESTALE issue. If the ESTALE problem exists even with the patches provided as part of 3041, we need to root cause it.
Pavan
