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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> | 2011-07-15 19:09:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2011-07-15 19:14:00 -0400 |
| commit | 674e405b8b3310702fd43d314f5f432ec2cb9980 (patch) | |
| tree | 6006e5eed6065b982561aaf5761a4a18d7d5d5fe /fs/nfs | |
| parent | 94b134ac8e9965309e70684b504c53bca36338b4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-674e405b8b3310702fd43d314f5f432ec2cb9980.tar.bz2 | |
nfs: document nfsv4 sillyrename issues
Somebody working on this code asked what the deal was with NFSv4, since
this comment notes that it's v2/v3's statelessness that requires
sillyrename. Shouldn't hurt to document the answer.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nfs/unlink.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/unlink.c b/fs/nfs/unlink.c index 8d6864c2a5fa..981298ce5124 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/unlink.c +++ b/fs/nfs/unlink.c @@ -501,6 +501,14 @@ nfs_async_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct inode *new_dir, * and only performs the unlink once the last reference to it is put. * * The final cleanup is done during dentry_iput. + * + * (Note: NFSv4 is stateful, and has opens, so in theory an NFSv4 server + * could take responsibility for keeping open files referenced. The server + * would also need to ensure that opened-but-deleted files were kept over + * reboots. However, we may not assume a server does so. (RFC 5661 + * does provide an OPEN4_RESULT_PRESERVE_UNLINKED flag that a server can + * use to advertise that it does this; some day we may take advantage of + * it.)) */ int nfs_sillyrename(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) |