On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 05:41:39AM -0400, Namjae Jeon wrote: > 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 the on-disk location > of the directory entries (i_pos) as the inode number.
The hell it can. You've just made them unstable on rename(2). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
