NFS shares some traits with stackable file systems. Both have some notion
of "layers": in nfs, it's client -> server -> local f/s; in a stackable f/s
it's upper -> lower.
I'm trying to understand what are the semantics of NFS when directories are
renamed on the server while a client is trying to use those directories (I
follow a similar behavior in unionfs or other stackable f/s). Consider this
sequence of steps:
1. client looks up (or revalidates) directory D1
2. server renames D1 to D2 (D2 could be anywhere in the tree)
3. client tries to create file F in (the cached) directory D1
What happens in the last step? Does the client get an ESTALE or some other
error? Or does it succeed and F gets created in the renamed directory
(D2/F)? Does the behavior differ b/t nfsv2/3/4? Is it described the RFCs
or specs?
Thanks,
Erez.
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On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 10:55 -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> NFS shares some traits with stackable file systems. Both have some notion
> of "layers": in nfs, it's client -> server -> local f/s; in a stackable f/s
> it's upper -> lower.
>
> I'm trying to understand what are the semantics of NFS when directories are
> renamed on the server while a client is trying to use those directories (I
> follow a similar behavior in unionfs or other stackable f/s). Consider this
> sequence of steps:
>
> 1. client looks up (or revalidates) directory D1
> 2. server renames D1 to D2 (D2 could be anywhere in the tree)
> 3. client tries to create file F in (the cached) directory D1
>
> What happens in the last step? Does the client get an ESTALE or some other
> error? Or does it succeed and F gets created in the renamed directory
> (D2/F)? Does the behavior differ b/t nfsv2/3/4? Is it described the RFCs
> or specs?
The general rule is that an NFSv2/v3/v4 client would expect 3 to succeed
(provided that the user has the required permissions).
The only exception would be in the case of NFSv4, if the server has set
the filesystem-wide attribute 'fh_expire_type' to the values
FH4_VOL_RENAME or FH4_VOL_ANY (i.e. volatile filehandles). In that case,
the server may return an NFS4ERR_FHEXPIRED error, in which case the
client is supposed to attempt to recover (though what mechanism it may
use to do that after a rename is a mystery to me - the spec certainly
doesn't attempt to explain).
Trond
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In message <1201457297.7346.27.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>, Trond Myklebust writes:
>
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 10:55 -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> > NFS shares some traits with stackable file systems. Both have some notion
> > of "layers": in nfs, it's client -> server -> local f/s; in a stackable f/s
> > it's upper -> lower.
> >
> > I'm trying to understand what are the semantics of NFS when directories are
> > renamed on the server while a client is trying to use those directories (I
> > follow a similar behavior in unionfs or other stackable f/s). Consider this
> > sequence of steps:
> >
> > 1. client looks up (or revalidates) directory D1
> > 2. server renames D1 to D2 (D2 could be anywhere in the tree)
> > 3. client tries to create file F in (the cached) directory D1
> >
> > What happens in the last step? Does the client get an ESTALE or some other
> > error? Or does it succeed and F gets created in the renamed directory
> > (D2/F)? Does the behavior differ b/t nfsv2/3/4? Is it described the RFCs
> > or specs?
>
> The general rule is that an NFSv2/v3/v4 client would expect 3 to succeed
> (provided that the user has the required permissions).
[...]
And by "succeed", you mean that the new file F will be created in D2, right?
Thanks,
Erez.
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