Re: update for 2.1.65 knfsd

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
18 Nov 1997 21:19:10 GMT

Followup to: <3471D81D.3609C06E@star.net>
By author: Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> With these changes in place, it should be very rare (I'm tempted to say
> impossible :-)) to get a stale filehandle error except in the cases
> where a traditional nfs server would do so. Moving a file to a different
> directory or deleting it should result in a stale filehandle, but this
> is the correct behavior (I think).
>

Is it? Or do you mean deleting or moving it locally? I suspect even
the latter (moving) case probably should access the file...

I might try to write a test case for this one and test it out...

-hpa

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