Re: "Rewriting kernfs and procfs" - GSoC'12

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:45:29PM +0100, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
> 
> While I once tried that (quite long ago), it turned out that the buffering
> the NFS client does somewhat conflicts the dynamic nature of /proc
> and /kern.  However, maybe it could work better with NFSv3 or even NFSv4?

At leastsome versions of nfs stat the enclosing directory - if it's
time has changed it will invalidate the cached contents.

        David

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