From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:15:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20080418161544.GA31520@shareable.org> References: <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> <20080414004521.GA30489@hash.localnet> <20080418115237.GA25089@shareable.org> <20080418125718.GD25089@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: szaka@ntfs-3g.org, me@bobcopeland.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > I have been bitten a few times by timeout based caches in the past > > (NFS and SMB (pre-oplock)). Simple things like editing a file, then > > running "ssh compiler-box make" from the editor quietly building > > incorrect code - and even subsequent make commands don't fix it. Or > > when I edit a file, then tell someone I've changed the file - and then > > they edit the file, and my edits are lost. Very annoying. Nobody > > should build those kind of caches into new software. :-) > > Oh well, you can turn off caching if it bothers you :) OTOH it would > be rather hard (and probably against the point) to try to extend the > sftp protocol to handle cache coherency. Sshfs is not meant to be a > normal filesystem (although some people are trying to use it for home > directories and such), just a simple way to access remote files. Oh, I agree. Violent agreement, they call it :-) -- Jamie