Re: [PATCH] fat: Fix non-atomic NFS i_pos read

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Fri Jun 29 2012 - 14:53:48 EST


"Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Just curious, this happened on the real system? I recently heard about
>> NFS issue.
> Not that I'm aware of. Can you point me to any discussion of the NFS
> issue? I've spent a lot of time recently studying the FAT NFS
> implementation and come to the conclusion that it is extremely
> vulnerable to inode eviction. More to follow...

It is true, I also know NFS support of FAT is broken, but I'm not sure
if it was read-only. Sorry, recent report was by private email, not
public.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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