> thanks, that sounds like "wow, when will it be there?" :-) > > my I add another question: do the caches communitcate with each other? > that > is, how does the cache on client A know that a file was just > changed/deleted/overwritten by client B, that is, became "dirty"? by checking mtime. Whenever io-cache gets a chance (any call which is returning mtime of the file) it validates the cache for a configurable time. you can set the cache time to be 0 so that every read is verified for cache validity by an mtime check. if you load read-ahead over io-cache, this verification overhead is reduced since a single stat call is done for pipelined verifications. avati -- If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.
