On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:53:46PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:50:14AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > Bulkstat also checks for ENOENT returns from xfs_iget() as the > > lookup it does is inherently racy. That is, if the inode is > > allocated when it is read from the IBT, but then has been unlinked > > before the actual xfs_iget() call, it expects to get back an ENOENT > > to tell it the inode has been unlinked and shouldn't be included in > > the bulkstat output. Otherwise, it returns the error to userspace. > > > > So converting the mode checks to return ESTALE definitely has the > > chance of breaking stuff that uses bulkstat (e.g. xfsdump) because > > it will return errors now where it previously just skipped the > > (unlinked) inode. > > Sounds like we should simply go with the original version of the patch > then. OK. Let me know if someone needs that resent.... --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
