Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NFS unlink race? | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 22 Jul 2002 10:46:19 +0200 |
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>>>>> " " == Nils O Selåsdal <noselasd@Utel.no> writes:
> Seems like there went some patches into 2.5 to fix some nfs > unlink races > (http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.681.1.1?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-1d) > Does this race apply to 2.4 as well? And might that explain why
A race exists, but it won't explain your problem. The nature of the race is rather that it will cause a program to crash with ESTALE errors if it tries to open the file at the exact same time as somebody else is trying to erase it.
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