On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:13:52AM +0200, Ivan Popov wrote:
> I have verified that Linux 2.6.5 contains the "evil" NFS-related code
> in fs/namei.c and that removing that code eliminates some obscure problems
> with Coda.

That is very strange, because in 2.6 the ESTALE return only happens for
filesystems that have the FS_REVAL_DOT flag set (i.e. only NFS).

This is the related changeset,

    http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1153.47.2?nav=index.html|src/|src/fs|related/fs/namei.c

I don't see how we can ever trip that code, because we don't set the
related flag.

Jan