Re: 2.2.10-ac<x> / 2.2.11-pre<x> NFS client problem & bugfix

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Sat, 7 Aug 1999 16:06:41 +0200 (CEST)


>>>>> " " == Steven N Hirsch <shirsch@adelphia.net> writes:

> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
>> What do you think of disabling negative dentry caching entirely
>> when acregmin is set to zero? Other UNIXes don't cache them at
>> all, at least not by default:
>>
>> OSF1 V4.0 alpha (NFS v3) SunOS 4.x Solaris 5.5.2 (NFS v3)
>> Solaris 5.7 (NFS v3) Ultrix 4.4 RISC HP-UX B.10.20

> Frank, Trond,

> Just to avoid confusing the masses (among which I count
> myself), can you clarify whether this problem exists in stock
> 2.2.10 or Alan's proposed-2.2.11-* patches? From a quick read
> of nfs/dir.c, it does not appear that nfs_renew_times() is
> being called on "goto out_valid".

> May I assume that this discussion is particular to -acXX and/or
> the NFS3 patches?

It seems to me to be particular only to -acXX. As far as I can see,
bothe stock 2.2.10 and NFSv3 are doing the right thing.

Cheers,
Trond

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