Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:07:56 +0300 | Subject | Re: [BUG] symlink problem with knfsd and reiserfs |
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Trond Myklebust writes: > >>>>> " " == Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net> writes: > > > In syslog, this message appears: Jan 15 00:21:03 elfe kernel: > > nfs_refresh_inode: inode 50066 mode changed, 0100664 to 0120777 > > The error is basically telling you that ReiserFS filehandles are being > reused by the server. Doesn't Reiser provide a generation count to > guard against this sort of thing?
Yes, inode->i_generation is stored in the file handle: fs/reiserfs/inode.c:reiserfs_dentry_to_fh().
Hans-Peter, what version of NFS are you using and have you remounted clients after upgrading to the newer kernel?
> > My 'fix' just solves the immediate problem of the wrong file mode. It > does not solve the problems of data corruption that can occur when the > client is incapable of distinguishing the 'old' and 'new' files that > share the same filehandle.
This requires i_generation overflow (modulo bug in reiserfs).
> > Cheers, > Trond
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