On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:42:40AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 02:54:00PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > So if you know the filesystem will only return FHEXPIRED for filehandles > > belonging to files that cannot be renamed, then it is perfectly reasonable to > > repeat the name lookup to re-access the file after the server forgets about > > an old filehandle. The mount option is how you communicate this knowledge, > > because the RFC doesn't provide a way to communicate it. > > What about http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5661#section-11.11 > STATUS4_FIXED? Also, could a re-looked-up file be considered sufficiently safe to use if all the attributes matched? (I guess not: inode numbers, change attributes, etc., could agree by coincidence, so it would never be completely reliable.) --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
