On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 02:03:02PM -0700, Anand Avati wrote: > To write a safe and generically portable program, it would be good to > not depend on telldir/seekdir cookie stability. However gluster takes > special pain to provide cookies with safe transformation to keep > telldir/seekdir cookies stable across closedir/opendir and even across > server and client reboots. Most disk filesystems provide stable > seekdir/telldir (maybe not all). I don't think NFS client gives stable > cookies to applications (though it expects stable cookies from the > server). However in the case of FUSE glusterfs + backend XFS or ext4, > you do get stable cookies. Thanks. Is this true even if someone else has created and/or deleted files in the directory in the mean time?
