On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 23:24 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > mmap()s can be different from read in that the syscall may have little > relation to when the data gets used. But I guess it's still a best > effort thing. Fair enough. Agreed that mmap() is special and very problematic on NFS. However I can't see how we can improve on the existing models short of some significant protocol modifications, and so far, nobody has presented the IETF with a good case for why they need this level of cache consistency. Cheers Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
