On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:01 -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > You say that LOOKUP is returning the attributes as well -- is it not > possible to operate the same way doing revalidation? I'm not sure I understand you. Do you mean issue LOOKUP calls instead of GETATTR calls when revalidating the file attribute information? Sure we could, but LOOKUP is a more expensive operation than GETATTR on most platforms: it requires the server to retrieve and process information from both the parent directory and the file. 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
