| Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:02:04 -0700 | From | Jeremy Allison <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] |
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:58:50PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > That would make it impossible to export the filesystem with NFSv2 and > v3. They do rely on ctime checking for certain operations (e.g. deciding > when to invalidate access and acl caches). NFSv4 needs this too if the > filesystem has no dedicated change attribute. > > Still, I suppose the market for exporting the same filesystem with both > NFS and Samba is limited...
Ask NetApp about that :-). They have built a rather large business on just that fact :-).
Jeremy.
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