From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Delays on "first" access to a NFS mount Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:15:28 +1100 Message-ID: <17903.14720.458169.409983@notabene.brown> References: <20070307112347.6a40faff.simon.peter@gmx.de> <20070307160633.77afb618.simon.peter@gmx.de> <20070307154240.GB26553@fieldses.org> <20070307194418.97fee0ec.simon.peter@gmx.de> <20070307205016.GI26553@fieldses.org> <20070307211729.GO26553@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Simon Peter To: "Talpey, Thomas" Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HP4Q4-000432-ML for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:15:36 -0800 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15] helo=mx2.suse.de) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1HP4Q5-0005Lx-9w for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:15:38 -0800 In-Reply-To: message from Talpey, Thomas on Wednesday March 7 List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Wednesday March 7, Thomas.Talpey@netapp.com wrote: > > The "flush" file lives in /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.export, and you write an > integer value to it. I *think* it then flushes any entries which are > more than that many seconds old. You write a timestamp in seconds-since-epoch and any entries older that time are treated as expired. We typically write out the mtime of the etab file. Or '1' to force a full flush. Arguably that sort of fine control isn't needed, but it seemed like a good idea at the time (it cause problems if your system clock goes backwards). NeilBrown ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs