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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:07:55 +0100
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
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Subject: Re: BUG REPORT: kernel nfs between 2.4.19-pre2 (server) and 2.2.21-pre3 (client)
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>>>>> " " == Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> writes:

     > This is a knfsd setup.

Good...

    >> The client will only return ESTALE if the server has first told
    >> it to do so. For knfsd, this is only supposed to occur if the
    >> file has actually been deleted on the server (knfsd is supposed
    >> to be able to retrieve ReiserFS file that have fallen out of
    >> cache).

     > The files are obviously not deleted from the server. Can you
     > give me a short hint in where to look after this specific case
     > (source location). I will try to do some debugging around the
     > place to see what is going on.

Those decisions are supposed to be made in the fh_to_dentry()
'struct super_operations' method. For ReiserFS, that would be in
fs/reiserfs/inode.c:reiserfs_fh_to_dentry().

It would indeed be a good idea to try sticking some debugging
'printk's in there in order to see what is failing...

Cheers,
  Trond