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Trond Myklebust authored
Add a mechanism for the VFS layer to retry pathname resolution if a file system returns ESTALE at any point during the resolution process. Pathname resolution is retried once from the first component, using all real lookup requests. This provides effective recovery for most cases where files or directories have been replaced by other remote file system clients. It also provides a foundation to build a mechanism by which file system clients can fail over transparently to a replicated server. Test-plan: Combinations of rsync and "ls -l" on multiple clients. No stale file handles should be after directory trees are replaced. Standard performance tests; little or no loss of performance is expected. Created: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:46:19 -0500 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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