On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:43:14AM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > How about just setting up a notification for unlink on those files, the > > same way we set up notifications for close with the NFSv3 filecache in > > nfsd? > > Yes, that'd probably work. It'd be better if we didn't have to throw > away unlinked files when the client expires, but it'd still be an > incremental improvement over what we do now. I wonder how important this is. If an NFS client unlinks a file that it has open, it will be silly_renamed, and if the client then goes silent, it might never be removed. So we already theoretically have a possibilty of ENOSPC due to silent clients. Have we heard of this becoming a problem? Is there reason to think that the Courteous server changes will make this problem more likely? NeilBrown