On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 05:52:05PM +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But NFS, for example, has open/close consistency, so the metadata > revalidation is at open() time, not at read time. I don't know much about filesystems, but can't size of file change after the open() under network filesystem? Revlidation on read looks like an requirement anyway, no? -- Kirill A. Shutemov