Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265001AbTFCNU0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:20:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265002AbTFCNUZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:20:25 -0400 Received: from smtp2.dataconnection.com ([192.91.191.8]:31502 "EHLO miles.dataconnection.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265001AbTFCNUY (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:20:24 -0400 Message-ID: From: Edward Hibbert To: "'Vivek Goyal'" , trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Ion Badulescu Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, davem@redhat.com, ezk@cs.sunysb.edu, indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:33:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1417 Lines: 41 -----Original Message----- From: Vivek Goyal [mailto:vivek.goyal@wipro.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:21 PM To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no; Ion Badulescu Cc: viro@math.psu.edu; davem@redhat.com; ezk@cs.sunysb.edu; indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com; nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Vivek Goyal Subject: RE: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client You are right. But our idea is to provide an option to disable/enable caching based on the nature of intended application. [EH] Hear hear :-). Our application consists of a number of machines collaborating on a shared database over NFS. We therefore require the ability to force data to be sync'd from the client to the backend - and at the moment we do this by disabling caching completely, via the noac option and acquiring and releasing non-exclusive locks round io calls. Any improvements in the granularity of control over NFS client-side caching would be very valuable to us. Regards, Edward Hibbert Internet Applications Group Data Connection Ltd Tel: +44 131 662 1212 Fax: +44 131 662 1345 Email: eh@dataconnection.com Web: http://www.dataconnection.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/