On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:45:36AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Also, could a re-looked-up file be considered sufficiently safe to use > if all the attributes matched? > > (I guess not: inode numbers, change attributes, etc., could agree by > coincidence, so it would never be completely reliable.) > We thought of doing something like that, but like you said it's not a guarantee. That was part of the reason why we went with the mount option. By using it, the user will assume that whatever files the re-look-ups return are safe/correct. -Matt Treinish -- 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
