[Dovecot] NFS cache flush tester

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:06 -0700, Doug Council wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 22:21 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >> http://dovecot.org/tools/nfstest.c
> > I've done several updates for this. Updated results for Linux 2.6:
> 
> Different result this time:
> 
> Info: Connected: client
> Info: O_EXCL works
> Info: Testing attribute cache..
> Fatal: open(/mnt/nfs/blah) failed: Stale NFS file handle

Hmm. I updated the nfstest.c to now just retry if this happens. Does it
help?

> This is on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 and a NetApp NFS server.  I'm wondering 
> if it is the same issue with the NFS client cache that I had to workaround 
> in the past with dotlocking 
> (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-May/022883.html).

If it didn't help, then I suppose chown() is needed..

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