On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 08:21:16AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > Again, compared to a directory fd cache, what you're proposing a huge > hit to the filesystem, and at the moment, given that telldir/seekdir > is rarely used by everyone else, it's mainly NFS which is the main bad > actor here by insisting on the use of a small 31/63-bit cookie as a > condition of protocol correctness.
If we want to get bigger cookies into the protocol, then the sooner we start working on that the better.... How big is big enough? And is a larger cookie sufficient on its own? --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
