Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:39:36 +0200 | From | Miquel van Smoorenburg <> | Subject | Re: NFS and cached atime |
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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.
> What are people's feelings about this?
I wonder about that too - what do other systems do ?
Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
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