On Fri, 21 May 2004, Jim Carter wrote:

> 
> > For a a cache hit we can:
> > 
> > 1. Check if the map entry has exceeded a given time to live, say
> >    the map expire time.
> > 2. If not continue as normal otherwise lookup the individual map
> >    entry and compare it to the cached entry.
> > 3. If they are identical continue as normal otherwise it's a hint
> >    the map has changed so re-read it.
> 
> Suggestion: set a flag saying "we know that this map is out of date", but 
> only re-read the whole thing when userspace expects to see up-to-date ghost 
> mounts.  Understood, that to read any one row from a file map you have to 
> read the whole thing; the suggestion makes a difference only for NIS and 
> LDAP -- where it makes a big difference.
> 

What were you thinking of as defining "out of date" Jim?

Ian

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