On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 12:34, Luis Henriques <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Laura, > > On Fri, Apr 11 2025, Laura Promberger wrote: > > > Hello Miklos, Luis, > > > > I tested Luis NOTIFY_INC_EPOCH patch (kernel, libfuse, cvmfs) on RHEL9 and can > > confirm that in combination with your fix to the symlink truncate it solves all > > the problem we had with cvmfs when applying a new revision and at the same time > > hammering a symlink with readlink() that would change its target. ( > > https://github.com/cvmfs/cvmfs/issues/3626 ) > > > > With those two patches we no longer end up with corrupted symlinks or get stuck on an old revision. > > (old revision was possible because the kernel started caching the old one again during the update due to the high access rate and the asynchronous evict of inodes) > > > > As such we would be very happy if this patch could be accepted. > > Even though this patch and the one that fixed the symlinks corruption [1] > aren't really related, it's always good to have extra testing. Thanks a > lot for your help, Laura. > > In the meantime, I hope to send a refreshed v9 of this patch soon (maybe > today) as it doesn't apply cleanly to current master anymore. And I also > plan to send v2 of the (RFC) patch that adds the workqueue to clean-up > expired cache entries. Don't bother, I just applied the patch with the conflicts fixed up. Thanks, Miklois
