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Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Performant partial directory listing
From: |
Brian Candler |
Subject: |
Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Performant partial directory listing through FUSE |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:35:44 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 02:03:02PM -0700, Anand Avati wrote:
> To write a safe and generically portable program, it would be good to
> not depend on telldir/seekdir cookie stability. However gluster takes
> special pain to provide cookies with safe transformation to keep
> telldir/seekdir cookies stable across closedir/opendir and even across
> server and client reboots. Most disk filesystems provide stable
> seekdir/telldir (maybe not all). I don't think NFS client gives stable
> cookies to applications (though it expects stable cookies from the
> server). However in the case of FUSE glusterfs + backend XFS or ext4,
> you do get stable cookies.
Thanks. Is this true even if someone else has created and/or deleted files
in the directory in the mean time?