From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: Stale file handle Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:40:40 +0100 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <15935.39080.407774.146836@charged.uio.no> References: <200302031903.53937.chris-nfs@drspirograph.com> <200302041218.31527.chris-nfs@drspirograph.com> <15935.5764.263002.800295@charged.uio.no> <200302041239.22301.chris-nfs@drspirograph.com> <15935.37181.947378.191993@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Reply-To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Chris Jensen , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16] ident=7411) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18g0Vk-00010g-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 02:41:04 -0800 To: Neil Brown , Gordon Chaffee In-Reply-To: <15935.37181.947378.191993@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: >>>>> " " == Neil Brown writes: >> I believe that a lot could be done to fix this particular >> issue. Although it is clear that some compromises will need to >> be made w.r.t. the NFSv3 specs, the stale filehandle thing >> could perhaps be fixed by (for instance) encoding the beginning >> of the FAT chain of the file + the parent directory in the >> filehandle. Such an encoding is admittedly not safe under >> renames of the file, but it would already be a huge >> improvement. > The filehandles for FAT files have had this information ever > since 2.4 first supported FAT (which wasn't the very early > 2.4s. 2.2 sort of supported FAT.. sometimes, maybe). > However the filehandle decoding code doesn't actually use this > information. It seemed like a lot of work for little gain. I > doubt very much if I will ever bother making it work better. > Ofcourse if anyone else wants to try ..... :-) The VFAT filesystem is listed as being maintained by Gordon Chaffee. If this is still the case, perhaps he could be persuaded to give it a try? If not, then it sounds like a golden opportunity for someone who would like an extra entry on their CV ;-) Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs