Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:25:24 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] fat: fix ESTALE errors |
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On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 05:41:39AM -0400, Namjae Jeon wrote: > From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@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 number.
The hell it can. You've just made them unstable on rename(2).
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