Namjae Jeon <[email protected]> writes: > From: Namjae Jeon <[email protected]> > > 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. > > We reached the conclusion support stable inode's read-only export first after > discussing with OGAWA and Bruce. > And will make it writable with some operation(unlink and rename) limitation > next time. > > Namjae Jeon (4) > fat: modify nfs mount option > fat: allocate persistent inode numbers > fat (exportfs): rebuild inode if ilookup() fails > fat (exportfs): rebuild directory-inode if fat_dget() fails > Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt
Sorry for late, I will review at next weekend. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
