Re: handling ERR_SERVERFAULT on RESTOREFH

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Hi Olga,

On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 14:14 -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> Hi folk,
> 
> Looking for guidance on what folks think. A client is sending a LINK
> operation to the server. This compound after the LINK has RESTOREFH
> and GETATTR. Server returns SERVER_FAULT to on RESTOREFH. But LINK is
> done successfully. Client still fails the system call with EIO. We
> have a hardline and "ln" saying hardlink failed.
> 
> Should the client not fail the system call in this case? The fact
> that
> we couldn't get up-to-date attributes don't seem like the reason to
> fail the system call?
> 
> Thank you.

I don't really see this as worth fixing on the client. It is very
clearly a server bug.

Thanks
  Trond

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
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