Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:35:49 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: If not readdir() then what? |
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J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 08:21:16AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: >> Again, compared to a directory fd cache, what you're proposing a huge >> hit to the filesystem, and at the moment, given that telldir/seekdir >> is rarely used by everyone else, it's mainly NFS which is the main bad >> actor here by insisting on the use of a small 31/63-bit cookie as a >> condition of protocol correctness. > > If we want to get bigger cookies into the protocol, then the sooner we > start working on that the better.... How big is big enough? And is a > larger cookie sufficient on its own? >
Any fixed size is too small. It should be a dynamic size.
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