On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:43:45AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > I wonder how important this is. If an NFS client unlinks a file that it > has open, it will be silly_renamed, and if the client then goes silent, > it might never be removed. So we already theoretically have a > possibilty of ENOSPC due to silent clients. Have we heard of this > becoming a problem? Oh, that's a good point. I've seen complaints about sillyrename files, but I can't recall ever seen a single complaint about their causing ENOSPC. > Is there reason to think that the Courteous server changes will make > this problem more likely? So I guess the only new cases the courteous server will introduce are even less likely (probably just the case where a file is unlinked by a client other than the one that has it open). So I think doing nothing for now is an acceptable alternative.... --b.
