From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: Can we flush directory data when the ctime changes? Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:35:02 -0400 Message-ID: <1155047702.5673.38.camel@localhost> References: <17624.15554.514216.623190@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1155045918.5673.26.camel@localhost> <44D89F4B.8080702@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Neil Brown , Linux NFS Mailing List Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GASg8-0002SV-7h for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:35:32 -0700 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.4] ident=7411) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1GASg7-0004u9-7D for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:35:32 -0700 To: Peter Staubach In-Reply-To: <44D89F4B.8080702@redhat.com> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:27 -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: > This really does seem like a bug in the NetApp server. With a change > like this, a simple chmod(2) could cause the client to invalidate its > caches... Agreed. Now what we could do to improve the client is to try to detect the loops this sort of bug causes. I'll try to think a bit about that... Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs