Re: [PATCH] dcache: return -ESTALE not -EBUSY on distributed fs race

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Jeff Layton:
> ...that can only happen in a remote filesystem. The only way for that
> to occur on a local fs is for that fs to allow a directory to be
> hardlinked, which should of course never happen.
>
> As to whether ESTALE is as good as EBUSY there...I doubt it'll matter
> much. Remote filesystems generally have to be able to cope with ESTALE
> errors anyway, and I doubt a lot of userland code handles EBUSY
> especially for this situation.

Ok, I understand.
Thank for explanation.


J. R. Okajima
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