Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:11:16 -0500 | From | Jeff Epler <> | Subject | Re: NFS locking bug -- limited mtime resolution means nfs_lock() does not provide coherency guarantee |
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:53:02PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: > No. Things fall in and out of the inode cache all the time. That's a > vicious circle that's going to lead to a lot of unnecessary traffic.
The traffic is not "unnecessary" if it's needed to work with today's NFS servers and get correct results. We need an absolute guarantee in nfs_lock() that we won't read stale data, we need it when working with non-linux NFS servers, and we need it today.
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