RE: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client

[Edward Hibbert]

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From: Vivek Goyal [mailto:[e-mail]]
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Subject: RE: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client

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You are right. But our idea is to provide an option to disable/enable
caching based on the nature of intended application.

[EH] Hear hear :-).  

Our application consists of a number of machines collaborating on a shared
database over NFS.  We therefore require the ability to force data to be
sync'd from the client to the backend - and at the moment we do this by
disabling caching completely, via the noac option and acquiring and
releasing non-exclusive locks round io calls.

Any improvements in the granularity of control over NFS client-side caching
would be very valuable to us.

Regards,

Edward Hibbert
Internet Applications Group
Data Connection Ltd
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