Re: [BUG] NFS no longer updates file modification timesappropriately

[Trond Myklebust]

På må , 07/06/2004 klokka 11:21, skreiv Joe Korty:

> Unless the real reason is reducing ethernet traffic.

That is after all, why we cache data. Look at the GETATTR traffic using
nfsstat.

>   In which case we
> could defer a timestamp-on-write only when it is still in the same second
> as the previous write, but don't defer when a new second rolls around
> on the client.  That would reduce timestamp updates to at most one per
> second per inode per client, while preserving old NFS behavior.

Exactly why should we go to all this trouble?

Cheers,
   Trond
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