Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct" (fwd)

[Joachim Breuer <jmbreuer@gmx.net>]

"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> writes:

> "A month of sundays ago Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:"
>> On 2002-09-03T18:29:02,
>>    "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> said:
>>
>> > The directory entry would certainly have to be reread after a write
>> > operation on disk that touched it - or more simply, the directory entry
>> > would have 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?
>
> Well, one has to read it from scratch. I'll set about seeing how to do.
> CLues welcome.

Just an idea, I don't know how well this works what with the 'IDE
can't do write barriers right' and related effects:

- Allow all nodes to cache as many blocks as they wish
- The atomic operation "update this block" includes "invalidate this
  block, if cached" broadcast to all nodes

Performance would certainly become an issue; depending on the
architecture bus sniffing as in certain MP cache consistency protocols
might be feasible (I, node 3, see a transfer from node 1 going to
block #42, which is in my cache; so I update my cache using the data
part of the block transfer as it comes by on the bus).


So long,
   Joe

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