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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > I have been bitten a few times by timeout based caches in the past
> > (NFS and SMB (pre-oplock)). Simple things like editing a file, then
> > running "ssh compiler-box make" from the editor quietly building
> > incorrect code - and even subsequent make commands don't fix it. Or
> > when I edit a file, then tell someone I've changed the file - and then
> > they edit the file, and my edits are lost. Very annoying. Nobody
> > should build those kind of caches into new software. :-)
>
> Oh well, you can turn off caching if it bothers you :) OTOH it would
> be rather hard (and probably against the point) to try to extend the
> sftp protocol to handle cache coherency. Sshfs is not meant to be a
> normal filesystem (although some people are trying to use it for home
> directories and such), just a simple way to access remote files.

Oh, I agree. Violent agreement, they call it :-)

-- Jamie


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