"J. Bruce Fields": > Why do you think -EBUSY's the right error in the local filesystem case? This busy_or_stale() is another bandaid, based upon your patch, EBUSY --> ESTALE. Because the msg string of ESTALE is "Stale NFS file handle" on many systems, I don't think it a good idea to return it for local fs. If you think EIO is better than EBUSY you can change it to eio_or_stale(). If you think it is surely not happen on every local fs, then this inline function is not necessary. J. R. Okajima -- 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