Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932534Ab2F2Sxz (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:53:55 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:39756 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932444Ab2F2Sxy (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:53:54 -0400 From: OGAWA Hirofumi To: "Steven J. Magnani" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: Fix non-atomic NFS i_pos read References: <1340990350-9565-1-git-send-email-steve@digidescorp.com> <877guqt2kf.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <1340993974.9826.4.camel@iscandar.digidescorp.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:53:51 +0900 In-Reply-To: <1340993974.9826.4.camel@iscandar.digidescorp.com> (Steven J. Magnani's message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:19:34 -0500") Message-ID: <87395et0e8.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 835 Lines: 19 "Steven J. Magnani" 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. -- OGAWA Hirofumi -- 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/