Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > This patch-set eliminates the client side ESTALE errors when a FAT partition > exported over NFS has its dentries evicted from the cache. > > One of the reasons for this error is lack of permanent inode numbers on FAT > which makes it difficult to construct persistent file handles. > This can be overcome by using fat_encode_fh() that include i_pos in file handle. > > Once the i_pos is available, it is only a matter of reading the directory > entries from the disk clusters to locate the matching entry and rebuild > the corresponding inode. > > We reached the conclusion support stable inode's read-only export first after > discussing with OGAWA and Bruce. > And will make it writable with some operation(unlink and rename) limitation > next time. I will review at this weekend. sorry. > Namjae Jeon (8) > fat: modify nfs mount option > fat: move fat_i_pos_read to fat.h > fat: pass superblock pointer instead of inode pointer to fat_ent_read() > fat: introduce a helper fat_get_blknr_offset() > fat: restructure export_operations > fat (exportfs): rebuild inode if ilookup() fails > fat (exportfs): rebuild directory-inode if fat_dget() fails > Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt > > --- > 1.7.9.5 > -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
