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Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:53:51 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	"Steven J. Magnani" <steve@...idescorp.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fat: Fix non-atomic NFS i_pos read

"Steven J. Magnani" <steve@...idescorp.com> writes:

>> Just curious, this happened on the real system? I recently heard about
>> NFS issue.
> Not that I'm aware of. Can you point me to any discussion of the NFS
> issue? I've spent a lot of time recently studying the FAT NFS
> implementation and come to the conclusion that it is extremely
> vulnerable to inode eviction.  More to follow...

It is true, I also know NFS support of FAT is broken, but I'm not sure
if it was read-only.  Sorry, recent report was by private email, not
public.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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