Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:37:26 -0500 | From | Malahal Naineni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC v3] vfs: make fstatat retry once on ESTALE errors from getattr call |
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Steve Dickson [SteveD@redhat.com] wrote: > > 2) if we assume that it is fairly representative of one, how can we > > achieve retrying indefinitely with NFS, or at least some large finite > > amount? > The amount of looping would be peer speculation. If the problem can > not be handled by one simple retry I would say we simply pass the > error up to the app... Its an application issue...
As someone said, ESTALE is an incorrect errno for a path based call. How about turning ESTALE into ENOENT after a retry or few retries?
Regards, Malahal.
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