Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:45:49 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] vfs: make fstatat retry on ESTALE errors from getattr call | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> |
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:20:35AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Well, it's possible, but it seems pathological to me for a server to do > that... > > Bruce and I were discussing this the other day. It would be good to add > something like this to the RFCs: > > "On a PUTFH, a server SHOULD hold a reference to the filehandle such
For "filehandle" I'd specify "current and saved filehandle".
> that it does not go stale over the life of the compound."
And that's *much* less of a burden on the server than requiring that the compound execute atomically.
> ...or something along those lines. That's a different matter though and > not directly related to this. :)
Yes.
--b.
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