Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:21:00 +0900 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] fat: fix ESTALE errors | | From | Namjae Jeon <> |
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2012/8/18, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>: > 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). Hello. Al. I will check rename(2) case. Thanks for reply. >
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