Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: If not readdir() then what? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:25:45 -0400 |
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:54:54 +0200, Jan Engelhardt said:
> NFS server sends the whole directory contents on NFS client opendir, > so that the whole readdir/telldir/seekdir magic can happen on the > client only... which would perhaps also enable a cheap telldir/seekdir, > and would also give a 'fixed view' when adding/deleting files > during readdir.
What should happen if the directory contents go stale? If *two* systems cache the directory and then proceed to add/delete files, what happens? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |