On Wed, 04 Jan 2023, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > If the server starts to reply NFS4ERR_STALE to GETATTR requests, why do > we care about stateid values? Just mark the inode as stale and drop it > on the floor. We have a valid state from the server - we really shouldn't just ignore it. Maybe it would be OK to mark the inode stale. I don't know if various retry loops abort properly when the inode is stale. > > If the server tries to declare the state as revoked, then it is clearly > borken, so let NetApp fix their own bug. That's probably fair. Thanks, NeilBrown > > -- > Trond Myklebust > Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace > trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >
