From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] fat: fix estale error on VFAT over NFS.
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:15:04 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87624rfgav.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353504190-5766-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> (Namjae Jeon's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:23:10 +0900")
Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> writes:
> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
>
> This patch-set eliminates the client side ESTALE errors when a FAT partition
> exported over NFS has its dentries evicted from the cache.
>
> One of the reasons for this error is lack of permanent inode numbers on FAT
> which makes it difficult to construct persistent file handles.
> This can be overcome by using fat_encode_fh() that include i_pos in file handle.
>
> Once the i_pos is available, it is only a matter of reading the directory
> entries from the disk clusters to locate the matching entry and rebuild
> the corresponding inode.
>
> We reached the conclusion support stable inode's read-only export first after
> discussing with OGAWA and Bruce.
> And will make it writable with some operation(unlink and rename) limitation
> next time.
I will review at this weekend. sorry.
> Namjae Jeon (8)
> fat: modify nfs mount option
> fat: move fat_i_pos_read to fat.h
> fat: pass superblock pointer instead of inode pointer to fat_ent_read()
> fat: introduce a helper fat_get_blknr_offset()
> fat: restructure export_operations
> fat (exportfs): rebuild inode if ilookup() fails
> fat (exportfs): rebuild directory-inode if fat_dget() fails
> Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt
>
> ---
> 1.7.9.5
>
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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