On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 18:32 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:

> What is your use case?  

What Neil Brown refers to as a "general file access protocol" -
basically making a flash disk available to a small embedded network for
random-access file I/O.

The flash disk is required to interoperate with Windoze, which forces us
into VFAT-backed NFS.

> I'm assuming current NFS support of FAT is still unstable behavior even with 
> your 
> patches. Is this true?

We use lookupcache=none, which I thought had stabilized things. Based on
what Namjae has found with ESTALE on rename/drop_caches I guess there is
a hole.
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Steven J. Magnani               "I claim this network for MARS!
www.digidescorp.com              Earthling, return my space modulator!"

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