Re: [PATCH] NFS: Add acreg{min,max} and acdir{min,max} in milliseconds

[Amit Gud <agud@akamai.com>]

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> It boils down to this: I'm extremely reluctant to get into an arms race
> of adding ever more mount options for increasingly finer-tuned attribute
> cache timeouts. While such an option may meet _your_ machine room
> requirements here and now, it becomes tiresome over the years as
> machines gain power, and people first start lobbying for millisecond
> timeouts, then microseconds, nanoseconds, pico... in order to catch up.
> 

It only makes sense to make machines more powerful and put that power to
optimum use. If keeping up with increased resolution is an issue, you
think something like "-o unit=ms acregmin=..." would be better? 'unit'
can apply to all the time related options defaulting to seconds.


AG
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