From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es>, root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct" (fwd)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:53:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903185344.GA7836@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209031629.g83GT2e08075@oboe.it.uc3m.es>
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>
--
Immortality is an adequate definition of high availability for me.
--- Gregory F. Pfister
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-03 15:39 [RFC] mount flag "direct" (fwd) Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 15:44 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-03 15:50 ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 15:56 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-09-03 15:59 ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 16:09 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-03 16:29 ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 16:33 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-03 17:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-03 18:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2002-09-03 21:07 ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 21:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-03 21:15 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-03 21:54 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-09-03 22:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-03 23:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-04 0:18 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-09-04 5:23 ` David Lang
2002-09-04 7:16 ` Helge Hafting
2002-09-04 8:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-04 12:07 ` Helge Hafting
2002-09-04 13:03 ` Hans Reiser
2002-09-04 8:41 ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-04 7:50 ` Joachim Breuer
[not found] ` <3D75F8B0.8C7E974E@aitel.hist.no>
2002-09-04 21:26 ` Joachim Breuer
2002-09-04 9:26 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-09-03 16:58 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-09-03 17:26 ` Peter T. Breuer
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