Jeff Layton [jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> 1) should we retry these calls on all filesystems, or attempt to have
> them "opt-in" in some fashion? This patch adds a flag for that, but
> we could just treat all filesystems the same way.
I don't know any cases where a retry on ESTALE would hurt. I would say
retry on all file systems the same way.
> 2) How many times should we retry on an ESTALE error? Once?
> Indefinitely? Some amount in between? Retrying once would probably
> fix the bulk of the real world problems with this, but there will
> still be cases where that's not sufficient.
As you say 1 retry should work in most cases. Indefinitely doesn't make
sense, I would rather let my application fail! How about 3 retries (3 is
a nice number! :-) )
Regards, Malahal.
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