Jeff Layton [jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > 1) should we retry these calls on all filesystems, or attempt to have > them "opt-in" in some fashion? This patch adds a flag for that, but > we could just treat all filesystems the same way. I don't know any cases where a retry on ESTALE would hurt. I would say retry on all file systems the same way. > 2) How many times should we retry on an ESTALE error? Once? > Indefinitely? Some amount in between? Retrying once would probably > fix the bulk of the real world problems with this, but there will > still be cases where that's not sufficient. As you say 1 retry should work in most cases. Indefinitely doesn't make sense, I would rather let my application fail! How about 3 retries (3 is a nice number! :-) ) Regards, 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
