Re: (follow-up) "Stale NFS file handle" for NFS exported UFS fro

On 10.07.2013 10:16, Claude Buisson wrote:
> On 07/10/2013 17:05, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> Hello guys;
>>
>> Thank for finding this, however ...
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> While I understand this change caused the issue and I am willing to
>> revert it,
>> I think the problem is actually in NFS. At least ext2/3/4 and fuse (so I
>> presume
>> glusterfs) have unsigned i_gen.
>>
>
> I have the same thinking (and was rather astonished by the success of 
> my try at
> reverting it): there is something somewhere in the NFS code which have 
> not been
> synced with the UFS change.
>
> It is the reason I CC'ed rmacklem@
>

There is an ongoing port of glusterfs, and glusterfs is known to use
both NFS and fuse so I think we would have this problem sooner
or later.

I hope it's easy to find: I did a search for i_gen with opengrok before
making this change and couldn't find any user. Fortunately I had no
plans to merge the change for 9.2.

Pedro.
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