Trond Myklebust [Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > 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? VFH should work with read-only file systems. Is there a way to find if the exported file system is read-only? If there is, Matt should use that instead of using this mount option. --Malahal. -- 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
