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    SubjectRe: FUSE merging?
    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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    Frank
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