Messages in this thread | | | From | alano@summanul ... | Subject | Re: NFS and cached atime | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:42:53 -0700 |
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> According to Trond Myklebust: > > miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > > > Sounds like upon a read, the NFS client should update the atime on > > > the server even if the file was cached. > > > > This is all fairly easy to implement. I'd suggest just comparing the > > cached value of atime with the current time, and updating it in > > nfs_file_read if the discrepancy exceeds some timeout value. > > I've checked BSDI 4.0 talking to a NetApp NFS server, and it behaves > the same as Linux; atime doesn't get updated.
NetApp's NFS server is not a very good example. It is pretty awful. (But than again, their implementation of SMB is worse... Or just plain broken.)
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