On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 19:10 +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote >> >> The most important point to understand is this: >> >> If server opens a file for write it will trigger a copy up >> and the file handle returned will be persistent and final. >> >> The only problem is that when server opens a file for >> read *before* it opens the same file for write, the returned >> handle would be different, because first open for write >> creates a new file and the old file remains a zombie >> (as far as nfsd is concerned) only nfsd is able to to access >> the old file and only for read. > > That will break the client. As Miklos already told you, NFSv3 is > stateless, so the client won't be sending you an OPEN, and won't > actually hit a problem until it tries to send a WRITE, in which case > the resulting ESTALE error will be propagated to the application. > Yes, I should have listened to Miklos.. Thanks for taking the time to explain. Amir.
