On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 18:04 -0500, Matthew Treinish wrote: > This patch series implements client side support for volatile file handle > recovery (RFC 3530 section 4.2 and 4.3) with walk back using the dcache. To > test the client you either need a server that supports volatile file handles or > you can hard code the server to output NFS4ERR_FHEXPIRED instead of > NFSERR_STALE. (See the last patch in the series) WHY do we want to support this kind of "feature"? As you said, the RFC doesn't actually help in figuring out how this crap is supposed to work in practice, so why do we even consider starting to give a damn? -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- 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
