Bug 195271

Summary: overlayfs stores nfs states forever
Product: File System Reporter: kvaps (kvapss)
Component: OtherAssignee: fs_other
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 4.4.0-71-generic #92-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 24 12:59:01 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description kvaps 2017-04-06 19:16:05 UTC 
Hello, I use overlayfs on back of read only stateless NFSv3 in high availability configuration.

Problem is that overlayfs stores the states of the files of NFSv3,
This is a problem if the someone tries to access the file at the time that server is unavailable for a long time. Right, It return error like "Stale file handle"

And earler even if the server is available again, this file will remain unavailable on overlayfs with the same message.
Although on the lowerdir it has long been available