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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: NFS and cached atime
From:       alano () summanulla ! pcx ! ncd ! com
Date:       1999-04-30 21:42:53
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> According to Trond Myklebust:
> > miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
> > > Sounds like upon a read, the NFS client should update the atime on
> > > the server even if the file was cached.
> > 
> > This is all fairly easy to implement. I'd suggest just comparing the
> > cached value of atime with the current time, and updating it in
> > nfs_file_read if the discrepancy exceeds some timeout value.
> 
> I've checked BSDI 4.0 talking to a NetApp NFS server, and it behaves
> the same as Linux; atime doesn't get updated.

NetApp's NFS server is not a very good example.  It is pretty awful.  (But than again, their \
implementation of SMB is worse...  Or just plain broken.)


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