Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:07:09 -0700 | From | Jeremy Allison <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] |
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:05:00PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Thursday 2010-07-22 20:02, Jeremy Allison wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:58:50PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > >> > >> That would make it impossible to export the filesystem with NFSv2 and > >> v3. They do rely on ctime checking for certain operations (e.g. deciding > >> when to invalidate access and acl caches). NFSv4 needs this too if the > >> filesystem has no dedicated change attribute. > >> > >> Still, I suppose the market for exporting the same filesystem with both > >> NFS and Samba is limited... > > > >Ask NetApp about that :-). They have built a rather large > >business on just that fact :-). > > What would ZFS do? :p
Get sued out of existence by software patent trolls who have lost the ability to write code, apparently :-).
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