2012/11/27, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp>:
> Namjae Jeon <linkinj...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.j...@samsung.com>
>>
>> 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 fat_encode_fh() that include i_pos in file
>> handle.
>>
>> Once the i_pos is available, it is only a matter of reading the directory
>> entries from the disk clusters to locate the matching entry and rebuild
>> the corresponding inode.
>>
>> We reached the conclusion support stable inode's read-only export first
>> after
>> discussing with OGAWA and Bruce.
>> And will make it writable with some operation(unlink and rename)
>> limitation
>> next time.
>
> I will review at this weekend. sorry.
No problem. I will wait.
Thanks for reply.
>
>> Namjae Jeon (8)
>> fat: modify nfs mount option
>> fat: move fat_i_pos_read to fat.h
>> fat: pass superblock pointer instead of inode pointer to fat_ent_read()
>> fat: introduce a helper fat_get_blknr_offset()
>> fat: restructure export_operations
>> fat (exportfs): rebuild inode if ilookup() fails
>> fat (exportfs): rebuild directory-inode if fat_dget() fails
>> Documentation: update nfs option in filesystem/vfat.txt
>>
>> ---
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
>
> --
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp>
>
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