Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265065AbTFCPzh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:55:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265069AbTFCPzh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:55:37 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:10196 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265065AbTFCPzf (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:55:35 -0400 To: Edward Hibbert Cc: "'Vivek Goyal'" , trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Ion Badulescu , 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 References: From: Trond Myklebust Date: 03 Jun 2003 18:08:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have ques\tions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 16 >>>>> " " == Edward Hibbert writes: > 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. What does this have to do with symlinks? ...and why can't you use DIRECTIO? The above sort of application is exactly what it is being introduced for. Cheers, Trond - 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/