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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 2000 15:38:10 +0400 (MSD)
From:      vova@express.ru
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI bus
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004021534050.24770-100000@lanturn.kmost.express.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20000402110216.A24876@cicely8.cicely.de>

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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Bernd Walter wrote:

> > > I don't expect this to work because the readonly side can't know when the
> > > incore informations outdates.
> > 
> > Yes, it can be a problem, but may be this may be solved by disabling any
> > cache on read-only side (or setting expire time in one sec) ?
> 
> You can't diable readcaching completely.
> Say you need the inode, then you will read it and finaly use it.
> You don't reread it for every single byte you access which creates some kind of
> read cache. And there are much more complex points like this sample.

Ok, have kernel algorithm to "expire" cached vnodes ? Or vnodes only
pushed out by new pages ?

In my case writes - relative rare case then reads and I can wait for some
timeout while my in-kernel vnodes will dropped to see new from disk

> -- 
> B.Walter                  COSMO-Project              http://www.cosmo-project.de
> ticso@cicely.de             Usergroup                info@cosmo-project.de

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TSB Russian Express, Moscow
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov, vova@express.ru



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