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>
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@ -501,6 +501,14 @@ nfs_async_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct inode *new_dir,
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* and only performs the unlink once the last reference to it is put.
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*
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* The final cleanup is done during dentry_iput.
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*
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* (Note: NFSv4 is stateful, and has opens, so in theory an NFSv4 server
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* could take responsibility for keeping open files referenced. The server
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* would also need to ensure that opened-but-deleted files were kept over
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* reboots. However, we may not assume a server does so. (RFC 5661
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* does provide an OPEN4_RESULT_PRESERVE_UNLINKED flag that a server can
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* use to advertise that it does this; some day we may take advantage of
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* it.))
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*/
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int
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nfs_sillyrename(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
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