On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 05:40:11PM -0500, Christopher T Vogan wrote: > This condition is easily recoverable, as ANY missing attribute on a > readdir > is with a lookup/readdir. By the same token, the server can just as well recover by doing that extra lookup itself, can't it? (That's more-or-less how the Linux server gets attributes on readdir.) Understood that it can be a pain (the Linux server's readdir implementation has needed some minor surgery over the years to get this right), but I do think it's the server's responsibility.... --b. > Our decision to not return the FH on a readdir > reply under certain narrow conditions is not one of convenience but of > limitations of some underlying filesystem types, and if "convenience" is > to be used as an accusative, it can easily be returned to the client's > refusal to deal with the legal withholding of an attribute on a readdir > reply. -- 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
