Re: If not readdir() then what?

[H. Peter Anvin]

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 08:21:16AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > Again, compared to a directory fd cache, what you're proposing a huge
> > hit to the filesystem, and at the moment, given that telldir/seekdir
> > is rarely used by everyone else, it's mainly NFS which is the main bad
> > actor here by insisting on the use of a small 31/63-bit cookie as a
> > condition of protocol correctness.
>
> If we want to get bigger cookies into the protocol, then the sooner we
> start working on that the better....  How big is big enough?  And is a
> larger cookie sufficient on its own?

Any fixed size is too small.  It should be a dynamic size.

	-hpa
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