Messages in this thread |  | | From | devnull@spaans ... | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:18:50 -0400 | Subject | Re: NFS locking bug -- limited mtime resolution means nfs_lock() does not provide coherency guarantee |
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:03:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
For the timestamps, yes, but inode caching will take most of that hit. After all, the only time stat() reads from disk is when the inode has completely fallen out of the cache.
For commonly used inodes, sure, but there are lots of applications where the inode cache doesn't buy you that much.
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