On Nov 9, 2007 2:33 PM, Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I added a trace myself and I think I understand: when you have some SFS
> direcory accessed, and something changes in it (a file added/removed a Grant
> affecting you), the SFS server tells you once "something has changed",
> involving an EXT4000.  The SFS client code will later pool the server to
> find out what was changed.  Once the server sent you such such a message,
> other changes to that directory don't trigger another.

Yep. That's the thing that invalidates the in-core FST copies that CMS
holds for local file pools. It conflicts a little with general VM
design principles, but since the SFS server knows when the client got
a copy again it is probably a fair trade-off.

Rob
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Rob van der Heij
Velocity Software, Inc
http://velocitysoftware.com/

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