On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 18:04 -0500, Matthew Treinish wrote: > The new 'vfhretry' mount option will be used to enable the volatile filehandle > recovery routines in the client. On an expired filehandle recover the client > will attempt to recover by performing a lookup on the name of the file. > > This mechanism of recovery isn't necessarily safe for a posix filesystem so > using the mount option will allow the user to enable this at their own risk. If the mount option is not turned on, the FHEXPIRED error will be converted to > ESTALE. Either we handle NFS4ERR_FHEXPIRED, or we don't... What is the justification for wanting to turn this off on a per-mount basis? -- 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
