From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.j...@samsung.com> 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 numbers. Once the i_pos is available, it is only a matter of reading the directory entries from the disk clusters to locate the matching entry and rebuild the corresponding inode. If process is referring to the file, and the file is unlinked(deleted). Then, the file 'i_pos' is added to the busy list so the the entry is not available for new file creation. when finally inode is evicted the corresponding busy list entries are removed and slots are made available for new entries. Namjae Jeon (5) fat: allocate persistent inode numbers fat (exportfs): rebuild inode if ilookup() fails fat (exportfs): rebuild directory-inode if fat_dget() fails fat: eliminate-orphaned-inode-number-allocation Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
