Re: FUSE merging?

Frank van Maarseveen
2005-07-01T12:08:30Z

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:11:53PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > Userspace can tell the kernel, how long a dentry should be valid. I
> > > don't think the NFS protocol provides this. Same holds for the inode
> > > attributes.
> >
> > Why is that needed?
>
> Because, I can well imagine a synthetic filesystem, where file
> data/metadata change aribitrarily. In this case the timeout heuristic
> in NFS is not useful.
>
> In fact with NFS it's often a PITA, that it doesn't want to refresh a
> file's data/metatata, which I _know_ has changed on the server.

This NFS issue is on my radar for years already. I have a patch which
is practical but a bit disgusting. IMHO it's orthogonal to FUSE.

--
Frank