Re: NFS delegations behavior analysis

Benjamin Coddington <ben.coddington-F/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.nfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 23 Jun 2026, at 9:11, Benjamin Coddington wrote:

> .... er - so with directory delegations, can we simply re-hydrate the dentry
> cache from the directory page mappings if the delegation is still valid?
> Does the directory delegation pin the mapping?  Clearly I need to look at
> the code..

.. right - we don't keep the file attributes in the mappings today.  And,
more to the point - the directory delegation doesn't protect those file
attributes either.  We'd need NOTIFY4_CHANGE_CHILD_ATTRIBUTES implemented.

Ben
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