Re: NFS client questions...
H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 08:08:47 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
> > Take two machines. Call them (1) and (2) in this case. Make them both
> > Linux machines. Do the following, in this order:
>
> > 1: mkdir bla
> > 1: touch bla/foo.x
> > 2: touch bla/foo.y
> > 1: rm -rf bla
> > 1: mkdir bla
> > 2: ls -ls bla
>
> > The result of the "ls -ls" will produce nothing on FreeBSD or Solaris, but on
> > Linux, it's "Stale file handles" up the wazoo. I think I know how to fix this
> > as well, but I'm still poking about, but I believe that just fixing up
> > nfs_invalidate_inode to do the appropriate thing when it's a directory and
> > offset of 0 will do the trick. :)
>
> > Thoughts?
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> The following patch to stock linux-2.2.10 fixes the problem for
> me. Please try it out... If it works out OK, perhaps Alan could apply
> it to the 'ac' series too?
>
> Sorry I didn't reply earlier, but I'm off on holiday this
> week. I just quickly popped in to the office to read my mails today...
>
>
Have you looked at the patch from me and Steve?
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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