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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Can we flush directory data when the ctime changes?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:35:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155047702.5673.38.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D89F4B.8080702@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:27 -0400, Peter Staubach wrote:
> This really does seem like a bug in the NetApp server.  With a change
> like this, a simple chmod(2) could cause the client to invalidate its
> caches...

Agreed.

Now what we could do to improve the client is to try to detect the loops
this sort of bug causes. I'll try to think a bit about that...

Cheers,
  Trond


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08  7:26 Can we flush directory data when the ctime changes? Neil Brown
2006-08-08 13:28 ` Chuck Lever
2006-08-08 14:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-08 14:27   ` Peter Staubach
2006-08-08 14:35     ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-08-15  3:49   ` Neil Brown
2006-08-15 15:26     ` Peter Staubach

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