From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Marking inodes as stale can be wrong
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:58:02 +0200
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To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:44:56PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:40, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> > 	fh_verify did the subtree check, and found that
> > 	~/Mail was mode 700, and hence user nobody didn't
> > 	have x permissions on the directory. So it would
> > 	return ESTALE to the client.
> 
> This is a bug!

Yes, probably. Even though I'm not entirely sure NFSERR_ACCES is a valid
return for all NFS operations.

However, machines with 2.4 will be out there for a while, so the question
I'm asking myself is how to cope with those in the client.

Olaf
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