Re: Red Hat needs this patch (was Re: handling NFSERR_JUKEBOX)

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Marcelo Tosatti <[e-mail]> writes:

     > Trond,

     > Should'nt we make Linux retry on NFSERR_JUKEBOX _by default_ ?

Normally we probably should. The thing that worries me is the fact
that we may be holding the VFS semaphores for long periods of
time. In particular that will greatly slow down lookups...
This is the reason why I'd prefer a lot of these things to be done in
the VFS layer or above.

Cheers,
  Trond