On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 12:04 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > Does the Linux NFS client optimize away the GETATTR when it has sent > only a single WRITE and the server has returned post-op attributes? > Using a large wsize with a modern server implementation might make > this a fairly common scenario. Yes: please see the code. We use a standard nfs_revalidate_inode() which will be optimised away if the inode metadata is known to be up to date. Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html