Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:08:26 +0200 | From | Frank van Maarseveen <> | Subject | Re: FUSE merging? |
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:11:53PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Userspace can tell the kernel, how long a dentry should be valid. I > > > don't think the NFS protocol provides this. Same holds for the inode > > > attributes. > > > > Why is that needed? > > Because, I can well imagine a synthetic filesystem, where file > data/metadata change aribitrarily. In this case the timeout heuristic > in NFS is not useful. > > In fact with NFS it's often a PITA, that it doesn't want to refresh a > file's data/metatata, which I _know_ has changed on the server.
This NFS issue is on my radar for years already. I have a patch which is practical but a bit disgusting. IMHO it's orthogonal to FUSE.
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