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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:53:44 +0200
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es>, root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct" (fwd)
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On 2002-09-03T18:29:02,
   "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> said:

> > Lets say you have a perfect locking mechanism, a fake SCSI layer
> OK.

BTW, I would like to see your perfect distributed locking mechanism.


> The directory entry would ceryainly have to be reread after a write
> operation on disk that touched it - or more simply, the directory entry
> would hvae to be reread every time it were needed, i.e. be uncached.

*ouch* Sure. Right. You just have to read it from scratch every time. How
would you make readdir work?

> If that presently is not possible, then I would like to think about
> making it possible.

Just please, tell us why.



Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br?e <lmb@suse.de>

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