On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 05:42:21PM +1030, David Newall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Why not require local access to use the same mechanism as remote, i.e.
> by "network mounting" the data on the local machine, too. That way
> there's no confusion over where the change originated nor who's copy
> must be invalidated.
There is always a possibility that some application will access given
data directly and not via mounted partition, plus I have to patch
server's kernel with out of the tree modules, so intestead I could
implement lsm-based module to catch access and embed cache coherency
protocol there. Inotify in this case is the simplest approach.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
