Re: [PATCH 2.4.19pre8][RFC] remove-NFS-close-to-open from VFS (was Re: [PATCHSET] 2.4.19-pre8-jp12)

Tomas Szepe (szepe@pinerecords.com)
Fri, 17 May 2002 05:04:07 +0200


> > Is it possible to leave the VFS layer untouched? Or restrict the dentry
> > revalidation to NFS and let other remote file systems coexist, i.e. without
> > revalidation calls?
>
> Really the other file systems want fixing - that revalidation is a real bug
> fix and the situation could occur for other network file systems too

I was able to reproduce the bug on a reiserfs root on one of my machines today.

T.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/