On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:02 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So how about, we instead implement a flag which tells fuse that > file server is implementing a local filesystem and it does not > expect anything to changed outside fuse. This will make sure > distributed filesystems like gluster don't regress because > of this change and a class of local filesystems can gain from > this. Once we support sharing mode in virtiofs, then we will > need to revisit it again and do it right for distributed > filesystems (depending on their invalidation mechanism). Okay, sounds good. This flag can be set on "cache=always" in virtiofsd. Thanks, Miklos
