I suspect the correct solution is to mark attrs untrusted in mdc_unreachable().

Daniel

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Frank Filz <ffilz...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> In cache_inode_rename, we did a lookup of both the old name and the new
> name, and refreshed attributes on both objects.
>
> In mdcache, I'm not sure we invalidate the attributes of mdc_lookup_dst (if
> any, the object that is unlinked as a result of rename onto it).
>
> What this results in is that a rename of a file causes us to not reflect the
> updated ctime to the client.
>
> I think we need to do an mdc_try_get_cached on old name, and if that results
> in a cached object, to invalidate it's attributes.
>
> Similarly, if mdc_lookup_dst is non-NULL, we need to invalidate it's
> attributes (if it had multiple hard links, a rename over it should change
> it's ctime also). If we just evict it from cache, then that works also.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Anyone else have thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
>
>
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