From: Edward Hibbert <EH@dataconnection.com>
Subject: RE: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:33:45 +0100
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-----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
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linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Vivek Goyal
Subject: RE: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client

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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