Re: [PATCH 0/4] fat: fix ESTALE errors

[Namjae Jeon]

2012/8/18, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 05:41:39AM -0400, Namjae Jeon wrote:
>> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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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