On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:04:13AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
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> Why can't we just refrain from doing the stat at mount time, and do it
> on demand when it is actually needed, with a variable to record
> whether the stat info is valid (or time of last stat, if we want to
> avoid calling more than o
I do agree but at the moment we have a chicken and egg situation -
venus needs to be answering to provide the stat information but it is
currently in the kernel doing a mount. One thing that does occur to
me is what about venus feeding the stat information into the message
queue prior to