Hello!
On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Mark Fasheh wrote:
AT_STRICT allows userspace to indicate that it wants the most up to
date
version of a files status, regardless of performance impact. A
distributed
file system which has a non-coherent inode cache would know then to
send a
direct query to it's server.
Good idea! Sort out some NFS pain.
If a filesystem doesn't honour AT_STRICT, can we have the function
return an error instead of stale values?
Supposedly the existing stat() is the way to do this?
Bye,
Oleg
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