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From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>,
	Thomas Stockheim <tommi@bub-agema.de>,
	nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: NFS problem - close to open cache consistency broken ?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:12:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43298F6A.9000500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050915150824.GA24870@fieldses.org>

J. Bruce Fields wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:50:49AM -0700, Lever, Charles wrote:
>  
>
>>close-to-open is a convention, not a specification, so it's really up to
>>the client developers to implement what they think is right.
>>    
>>
>
>You can't turn off cache revalidation checks while someone else on the
>client has the file open.  Wouldn't that would make close-to-open
>useless in a lot of cases?
>

Perhaps, but close-to-open still covers cases that the normal cache
revalidation does not.  There are still windows possible with the
normal attribute cache which close-to-open handles.  Some of this
depends upon the attribute cache timeouts...

       ps


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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-15 13:50 NFS problem - close to open cache consistency broken ? Lever, Charles
2005-09-15 14:19 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-15 15:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-15 15:12   ` Peter Staubach [this message]
     [not found] <12528729.1126796454117.JavaMail.root@dtm1eusosrv72.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net>
2005-09-15 15:14 ` Thomas Stockheim
     [not found]   ` <18266122.1126803664464.JavaMail.root@dtm1eusosrv72.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net>
2005-09-16  7:22     ` Thomas Stockheim
     [not found] <6063053.1126674084242.JavaMail.root@dtm1eusosrv72.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net>
2005-09-15  7:47 ` Thomas Stockheim
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-14  2:22 Lever, Charles
2005-09-13  9:04 Thomas Stockheim

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