On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:54:54 +0200, Jan Engelhardt said: > NFS server sends the whole directory contents on NFS client opendir, > so that the whole readdir/telldir/seekdir magic can happen on the > client only... which would perhaps also enable a cheap telldir/seekdir, > and would also give a 'fixed view' when adding/deleting files > during readdir. What should happen if the directory contents go stale? If *two* systems cache the directory and then proceed to add/delete files, what happens?
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