Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261453AbVCMUqw (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:46:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261455AbVCMUqw (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:46:52 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:27831 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261453AbVCMUqu (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:46:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [CHECKER] inconsistent NFS stat cache (NFS on ext3, 2.6.11) From: Trond Myklebust To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Junfeng Yang , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mc@cs.Stanford.EDU In-Reply-To: <1110746550.23876.8.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <1110690267.24123.7.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20050313200412.GA21521@nevyn.them.org> <1110746550.23876.8.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:46:34 -0500 Message-Id: <1110746794.23876.11.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 25 su den 13.03.2005 Klokka 15:42 (-0500) skreiv Trond Myklebust: > No, that's a very different issue: you are violating the NFS cache > consistency rules if you are changing a file that is being held open by > other machines. > The correct way to do the above is to use GNU install with the '-b' > option: that will rename the version of glibc that is in use, and then > install the new glibc in a different inode. BTW: there is a more complete description of the NFS cache consistency model in the NFS FAQ: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/index.cel.php#faq_a8 Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/