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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es>, root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct" (fwd)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:53:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903185344.GA7836@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209031629.g83GT2e08075@oboe.it.uc3m.es>

On 2002-09-03T18:29:02,
   "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> said:

> > Lets say you have a perfect locking mechanism, a fake SCSI layer
> OK.

BTW, I would like to see your perfect distributed locking mechanism.


> The directory entry would ceryainly have to be reread after a write
> operation on disk that touched it - or more simply, the directory entry
> would hvae to be reread every time it were needed, i.e. be uncached.

*ouch* Sure. Right. You just have to read it from scratch every time. How
would you make readdir work?

> If that presently is not possible, then I would like to think about
> making it possible.

Just please, tell us why.



Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
Immortality is an adequate definition of high availability for me.
	--- Gregory F. Pfister


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-03 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-03 15:39 Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 15:44 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-03 15:50   ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 15:56     ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-09-03 15:59       ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 16:09     ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-03 16:29       ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 16:33         ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-03 17:32         ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-03 18:53         ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2002-09-03 21:07           ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-03 21:15             ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-03 21:15             ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-03 21:54             ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-09-03 22:46               ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-03 23:19               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-04  0:18                 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-09-04  5:23                 ` David Lang
2002-09-04  7:16             ` Helge Hafting
2002-09-04  8:39               ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-04 12:07                 ` Helge Hafting
2002-09-04 13:03                   ` Hans Reiser
2002-09-04  8:41               ` Peter T. Breuer
2002-09-04  7:50             ` Joachim Breuer
     [not found]               ` <3D75F8B0.8C7E974E@aitel.hist.no>
2002-09-04 21:26                 ` Joachim Breuer
2002-09-04  9:26             ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2002-09-03 16:58     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-09-03 17:26       ` Peter T. Breuer

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