On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 06:52 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday February 20, trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > It should work fine. The ctime tracks the mtime in all cases except when > > you setacl, setfattr, chown, chgrp, chmod, or touch the directory. Those > > should be very rare operations for pretty much any workload... > > > > Does that mean you'll take the patch ?? Not as it stands. You really want to be calling nfs_force_lookup_revalidate() instead of invalidating the directory contents. Cheers 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