On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:11:32PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > I vaguely remember that the same problem can occur with nfsd on a > local file system Not true; as I've said, exportable local filesystems know how to look up a file on disk by filehandle. > and that nfs clients have to be able to recover from > ESTALE (e.g. lookup/delete/create/lookup would fail with ESTALE > otherwise). It is true, however, that there are some *other* cases when a server can return ESTALE. In those cases (such as the one Peter Staubach discusses in more detail at http://lwn.net/Articles/272684/) there may be some recovery that a client might reasonably attempt. Alas, no client can be expected to recover from ESTALE errors on an opened file--those will just be passed on to the application. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
