[439] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: AFS and NeXTs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gardiner Myers)
Fri Nov 15 20:05:54 1991
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 18:48:09 -0500 (EST)
From: John Gardiner Myers <jm36+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <9111152133.AA19512@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
The fact that it keeps doing the GetTime request because you got
information on a read-only volume is a bug in the cache manager.
Read-only files don't have callbacks, but the 3.1 cache manager
thinks they do when it's time to do a "checkservers".
I find it annoying that people want to put all this hair into the
filesystem in order to deal with what is effectively a single
misbehaving application. It isn't that difficult to make the
application deal effectively with the filesystem.
Of course, it would be much nicer if unix had a "tell me if this is a
directory" operation/syscall that didn't require the os to get all
this ancillary, expensive to obtain baggage.
Could we move this discussion to info-afs-next?
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