nfs/svn/apache strange interaction

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:04:21PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> So probably the best we can do is find some way to let the client retry
> the lookup once.  That won't solve every possible problem--for example,
> if the file is replaced again while we're retrying the lookup--but in
> practice it seems unlikely you'd hit that case in your situation.
> 
> It sounds like there's been some thought about how to do that, but I
> don't know if anyone's written up a clear plan.

By the way, Al Viro's (to me, still somewhat cryptic) take on how to do
this:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/676019/focus=676145

--b.