Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:53:44 +0200 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct" (fwd) |
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On 2002-09-03T18:29:02, "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> said:
> > Lets say you have a perfect locking mechanism, a fake SCSI layer > OK.
BTW, I would like to see your perfect distributed locking mechanism.
> The directory entry would ceryainly have to be reread after a write > operation on disk that touched it - or more simply, the directory entry > would hvae to be reread every time it were needed, i.e. be uncached.
*ouch* Sure. Right. You just have to read it from scratch every time. How would you make readdir work?
> If that presently is not possible, then I would like to think about > making it possible.
Just please, tell us why.
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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