From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761183AbXHaEid (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:38:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754094AbXHaEiY (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:38:24 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:54835 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751664AbXHaEiW (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:38:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:38:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Trond Myklebust cc: Hua Zhong , "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" , akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression In-Reply-To: <1188534682.6626.70.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Message-ID: References: <000701c7eb49$cff701c0$6fe50540$@com> <1188513433.6626.24.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <001001c7eb57$afd2d320$0f787960$@com> <1188516173.6626.46.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <001501c7eb5d$d295d870$77c18950$@com> <1188517070.6626.54.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <001601c7eb5f$b6146980$223d3c80$@com> <1188534682.6626.70.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > No. Solaris defaults to breaking cache consistency. If so, and since that's obviously what people _expect_ to happen, why not make that the default, with the "consistent" behaviour being the one that needs an explicit option. Just out of curiosity - Hua, is this NFSv2? Especially there, cache "consistency" is largely a joke anyway, so defaulting to some annoying careful mode is doubly ridiculous. Linus