Re: Red Hat needs this patch (was Re: handling NFSERR_JUKEBOX)

From: Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 05:53:42 EST


>>>>> " " == Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> Trond,

> Should'nt we make Linux retry on NFSERR_JUKEBOX _by default_ ?

Normally we probably should. The thing that worries me is the fact
that we may be holding the VFS semaphores for long periods of
time. In particular that will greatly slow down lookups...
This is the reason why I'd prefer a lot of these things to be done in
the VFS layer or above.

Cheers,
  Trond
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Nov 07 2001 - 21:00:29 EST