Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754204Ab2HTEVD (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:21:03 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:59799 "EHLO mail-vc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752815Ab2HTEVB (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:21:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120818132524.GW23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1345282899-7534-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> <20120818132524.GW23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:21:00 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fat: fix ESTALE errors From: Namjae Jeon To: Al Viro Cc: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namjae Jeon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 934 Lines: 23 2012/8/18, Al Viro : > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 05:41:39AM -0400, Namjae Jeon wrote: >> From: Namjae Jeon >> >> 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 the on-disk location >> of the directory entries (i_pos) as the inode number. > > The hell it can. You've just made them unstable on rename(2). Hello. Al. I will check rename(2) case. Thanks for reply. > -- 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/