Re: [PATCH 3/3] enhanced NFS ESTALE error handling (v2)

[Peter Staubach]

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 15:58 -0500, Peter Staubach wrote:
>   
> > Hi.
> >
> > The patch enhanced the ESTALE error handling for NFS mounted
> > file systems.  It expands the number of places that the NFS
> > client checks for ESTALE returns from the server.
> >
> > It also enhances the ESTALE handling for directories by
> > occasionally retrying revalidation to check to see whether the
> > directory becomes valid again.  This sounds odd, but can occur
> > when a systems administrator, accidently or unknowingly,
> > unexports a file system which is in use.  All active
> > non-directory files become permanently inaccessible, but
> > directories can be become accessible again after the
> > administrator re-exports the file system.  This is a situation
> > that users have been complaining about for years and this
> > support can help to alleviate their situations.
> >     
>
> As far as I can see, this patch can be applied separately from the VFS
> fixes. If so, would it make sense for me to take charge of this patch in
> the NFS tree, while Andrew queues up the other two VFS changes in -mm?

Yes, I think that this would make good sense.

   Thanx...

      ps

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