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Add a mount option 'softreval' that allows attribute revalidation 'getattr' calls to time out, and causes them to fall back to using the cached attributes. The use case for this option is for ensuring that we can still (slowly) traverse paths and use cached information even when the server is down. Once the server comes back up again, the getattr calls start succeeding, and the caches will revalidate as usual. The 'softreval' mount option is automatically enabled if you have specified 'softerr'. It can be turned off using the options 'nosoftreval', or 'hard'. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.