Hans Reiser writes:
> Russell Coker wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:00, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:01:09PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > >
> > > Making the server stateless is wrong
> > >
> > > why?
> >
> > Because it leads to all the problems we have seen! Why not have the client
> > have an open file handle (the way Samba works and the way the Unix file
> > system API works)? Then when the server goes down the client sends a
> > request
> > to open the file again...
If you have 10000 clients each opening 100 files you got 1e6 opened
files on the server---it wouldn't work. NFS was designed to be stateless
to be scalable.
> >
> > > making the readdir a multioperation act is wrong
> > >
> > > why? i have 3M directories... ar you saying clients should read the
> > > whole things at once?
> >
> > No. findfirst()/findnext() is the correct way of doing this. Forcing the
> > client to read through 3M directory entries to see if "foo.*" matches
> > anything is just wrong. The client should be able to ask for a list of
> > file
> > names matching certain criteria (time stamp, name, ownership, etc). The
> > findfirst() and findnext() APIs on DOS, OS/2, and Windows do this quite
> > well.
>
> there is a fundamental conflict between having cookies, shrinkable
> directories, and the ability to
> find foo.* without reading the whole directory, all at the same time.
>
> NFS V4 is designed by braindead twerps incapable of layering software when
> designing it.
Just cannot stand it. You mean that NFS v4 features database in a kernel
too? (It's our insider joke.)
>
> >
> > If you have 3M directory entries then SMB should kick butt over NFS.
> >
> > Also while we're at it, one of the worst things about NFS is the issue of
> > delete. Because it's stateless NFS servers implement unlink as "mv" and
> > things get nasty from there...
> >
> > --
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> > http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on
> > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
Nikita.
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