This doesn't apply to -mm, because the ro-mounts stuff touches a lot of the same places as this patch. You probably need to rebase this on top of those changes. > This patch adds handling for the error, ESTALE, to the system > calls which take pathnames as arguments. The algorithm used > is to detect that an ESTALE error has occurred during an > operation subsequent to the lookup process and then to unwind > appropriately and then to perform the lookup process again. > Eventually, either the lookup process will return an error > or a valid dentry/inode combination and then operation can > succeed or fail based on its own merits. If a broken NFS server or FUSE filesysem keeps returning ESTALE, this goes into an infinite loop. How are we planning to deal with that? And it has to be dealt with either in the VFS, or in the kernel parts of the relevant filesystems. We can't just say, fix the broken servers, especially not with FUSE, where the server is totally untrusted. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
