----- Original Message ----- > From: "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <manu@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Raghavendra Gowdappa" <rgowdapp@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 10:15:40 AM > Subject: Re: FUSE nodes TTL and FORGET > > Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I am little bit confused here about uselessness of FORGET messages > > Once a node TTL is expired, you will have to do a LOOKUP again, but > if > you can avoid doing a FORGET for a node you are going to lookup again > immediatly, you save the cost of the FORGET operation. This is the > rationale for postponing FORGET a bit, so that you have an > opportunity > to cancel it because the node is still being used. Wouldn't tinkering with TTL value achieve similar functionality? Or is it that a fixed TTL value is too static to predict next lookup? > > -- > Emmanuel Dreyfus > http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz > manu@xxxxxxxxxx >