Joel Becker wrote: > 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? > > for the time, system doesn't know whether it's stale yet. the fix just makes the inode to be stale(OCFS2_INODE_DELETE), or make sure there is no such a stale inode in memory when it's stale(deleted or a new different inode occupies the same block).
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