Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed")

Marcus Sundberg (marcus@cendio.se)
12 Sep 2001 12:44:01 +0200


neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown) writes:

> On September 10, marcus@cendio.se wrote:
> > cachefs sucks. It doesn't seem to cache stat(2) information.
> > Doing ls -F in a ~100-entries directory takes several seconds over
> > a link with 50ms round-trip time.
>
> Well, I said "concept" not "implementation", but I suspect that
> Solaris cachefs does cache stat information. Maybe you just need to
> increase the timeouts for the attribute cache.

Considering that I did several ls'es on the order of milliseconds
apart I doubt that would help...

//Marcus

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