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Subject: Re: Re: Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:09:03PM +0100, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
> It could be wasteful, but it could (most likely) also be useful. Name
> resolution is not that expensive on either side of the network. The
> latency introduced by the single-name lookups is :)

*is* latency the problem here?  Last I heard, it was the intolerable
load placed on the DLM by having clients bounce the read locks for each
directory element all over the cluster.