Re: [AOLSERVER] Data corruption with fastpath caching

2008-08-22 Thread Jim Davidson
Ah -- I (finally) understand... I must have missed the detail re: serialization in message #30 out of #60 or so So, this clarifies to me: -- cache by filename key is correct and good for most cases and should be on by default -- the grace period is a clever solution for the

Re: [AOLSERVER] Data corruption with fastpath caching

2008-08-22 Thread Tom Jackson
Jim, Can I ask why the filename is important for the cache key? With the cache delay, the inode/dev + *time + size should do it all. In fact, I finally understood the difference between mtime and ctime, if any change is made, it should be the change to ctime. Why ctime? ctime is unique in that