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From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.19pre8][RFC] remove-NFS-close-to-open from VFS (was Re: [PATCHSET] 2.4.19-pre8-jp12)
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> > Is it possible to leave the VFS layer untouched? Or restrict the dentry 
> > revalidation to NFS and let other remote file systems coexist, i.e. without 
> > revalidation calls? 
> 
> Really the other file systems want fixing - that revalidation is a real bug
> fix and the situation could occur for other network file systems too

I was able to reproduce the bug on a reiserfs root on one of my machines today.

T.