RE: Some caching questions

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From: Boris Z. (boris@conley.com)
Date: 06/09/99-04:51:49 PM Z


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From: "Boris Z." <boris@conley.com>
Subject: RE: Some caching questions 
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:51:49 -0400



On Wednesday, June 09, 1999 4:52 PM, Noveck, Dave [SMTP:dave.noveck@netapp.com] wrote:
> I have some question about the weak-cache-consistency stuff
> that went into v3 and how v3 clients use it and I also have
> a question about directory caching in v3 clients.
> 
> The first thing is that I notice that this stuff isn't in 
> v4 and I'm wondering why.  Does it reflect some belief that
> this stuff isn't useful?
> 

 I guess we intended to replace it with something more
deterministic (byte range oplocks for example).


> My other caching question has to do with caching of directories.  Are 
> there any v3 clients out there that cache directories other than in the
> normal name cache sense of caching name-to-vnode or name-to-handle
> mappings for lookups, etc. that have succeeded.  Specifically, does
> anyone:
> 
>

Caching of directories without 'directory change notifications' is even more
dangerous than caching of data base on wcc.



On Wednesday, June 09, 1999 4:52 PM, Noveck, Dave [SMTP:dave.noveck@netapp.com] wrote:
> I have some question about the weak-cache-consistency stuff
> that went into v3 and how v3 clients use it and I also have
> a question about directory caching in v3 clients.
> 
> The first thing is that I notice that this stuff isn't in 
> v4 and I'm wondering why.  Does it reflect some belief that
> this stuff isn't useful?
> 

 I guess we intended to replace it with something more
deterministic (byte range oplocks for example).


> My other caching question has to do with caching of directories.  Are 
> there any v3 clients out there that cache directories other than in the
> normal name cache sense of caching name-to-vnode or name-to-handle
> mappings for lookups, etc. that have succeeded.  Specifically, does
> anyone:
> 
>

Caching of directories without 'directory change notifications' is even more
dangerous than caching of data base on wcc.


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