Re: [PATCH] nfs_unlink() race (was: nfs_refresh_inode: inode number

[Linus Torvalds]

On 11 Jun 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> fs/vfat - d_revalidate: vfat_revalidate

That still shouldn't cause ESTALE, it should just force a dropping of the 
dentry, and a re-lookup (and that, in turn, should either get the right 
thing, or should return ENOENT).

Or are you talking about 2.4.x and that is doing something strange these
days?

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			Linus