Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Sep 04 2007 - 03:52:06 EST


Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> - the NFSv4 delegation model breaks: the client will be using
> OPEN when it could use cached opens. More importantly, when
> performing an operation that requires it to return the
> delegation on the aliased file, it won't know until the server
> sends it a callback.

Perhaps sharing could be the default on NFSv4 and non-sharing for 2 & 3?
After all, NFSv4 is supposed to be able to handle local caching on disk.

David
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