[reiserfs-list] RE: [OpenAFS-devel] weird issue with reiserfs on 2.4.3 and openaf s

[Neulinger, Nathan]

> Sorry, my memory of the workaround isn't that great.  This 
> will always work:
> open(file)
> iget(file's inode)
> close(file)
> 
> This will work most of the time, but has a window where the 
> inode can go
> out of cache:
> open(file)
> close(file)
> iget(file's inode)

As a note, I tried putting back in the workaround that Derek came up with
for the afscache-not-on-it's-own-reiserfs slowdown, and it fixed this
problem, at least at cache init time.

Given that you don't have that fallback code, I'd imagine that it can still
potentially fail later on as the machine is running due to the inodes
getting flushed out of the cache.

-- Nathan