On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:33:32PM +0800, wengang wang wrote:
> Joel Becker wrote:
> >     What's the problem other than ESTALE?  That's perfectly valid in
> > the world of NFS.
> >
> >   
> ESTALE is not a big problem, what is important is that:
> it cause kernel panic during ocfs2_meta_lock_update() at later 
> operations when it updates metadata from disk.

        This is the bug.  Why is a stale inode getting meta_lock called
against it?  That's what we should be preventing, no?

Joel

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Joel Becker
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Oracle
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