From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client Date: 03 Jun 2003 18:08:35 +0200 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Return-path: Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19NELN-0006GX-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:09:01 -0700 To: Edward Hibbert In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: >>>>> " " == 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs