Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:15:44 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 |
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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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