On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 21:45 +0200, Stefan Egli wrote: > Thanks Mates! I've seen those manuals but the bug I'm chasing doesn't > seem to be documented ;) > > Just now that I got your attention :) one final clarification question: > * the attribute cache (==metadata cache) is part of the nfs client code > * the date (=file content) cache would be the normal linux caching Yes. data == file contents. metadata == file attributes (i.e. stat() info, acls,...) Both will be cached by the client, but the rules for how to cache them differ. -- 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