Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:37:46 +0000 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r188832 - head/sys/nfsclient Message-ID: <20090220003746.GA30711@crodrigues.org> In-Reply-To: <499DF860.8020903@samsco.org> References: <200902192218.n1JMI1HF009245@svn.freebsd.org> <499DF860.8020903@samsco.org>
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:25:04PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/188832 > > Not too long ago, this was a very useful and important optimization. > Can you say which servers this applies to? Could it have been made an > option instead of outright deleted? At work, I was talking to a senior engineer at Netapp who looked at the FreeBSD NFS client code, and recommended that this very change be made for FreeBSD, i.e. replace ACCESS RPC calls with GETATTR RPC calls. ACCESS calls involve more work on the server for evaluating ACLS and UID mappings. -- Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org
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