On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:21:35PM -0500, Steve French wrote: >>> Until Peter's Linux NFS fix is in - aren't we in that situation >>> already with other fs. >> >> That patch is not going to help with the fundamental problem that >> you won't be able to ever find an inode that went out of cache. > > Isn't that what Peter's fix (and Solaris and other clients do) - they > revalidate the inode via another nfs lookup when it has gone stale. With NFSv4, handles from network file systems, 9p, and FAT32 etc. can be treated explicitly as "volatile" - an alternative is nfsd restricting export to NFSv4 for those file systems. -- Thanks, Steve -- 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
