Marcus Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}> > I am seeing that if a process holds an AFS file open, and that
}> > file is deleted externally, that eventually the process can no longer
}> > read the file.
}NFS has the same problem. The major reason one might want
}to do this deliberately is for temporary files ...
}The design issues are certainly kind of interesting. NFS is
}designed to be as entirely stateless as possible. That means
}it can't keep files around after they're deleted - that would
}imply it's keeping state information on clients, which would
}violate one of its design precepts.
Actually, I believe NFS handles the "temp file" case correctly --
if you delete a file which you have open the NFS client renames
the file to one of those funky .nfs############# files and
deletes that when you close it. This frees the server from
having to keep state in this case.
John
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