Samba and MS Shadow Copy

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Tue Aug 5 15:02:35 GMT 2003


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Ken Cross wrote:

> 
> > > 2.  The VFS routine for "stat" includes a cache for file 
> > stats.  Samba 
> > > has a HUGE amount of stat requests going on.  This code 
> > will keep the 
> > > stat in cache for one second.  A lot of operations (open 
> > with create, 
> > > unlink, etc.) will invalidate the cache.  Tests have shown NetBench 
> > > operations get a 70% cache hit. (!)
> > Interesting... Is this of a general use?
> 
> Yes.  It comes with no warranty, though.  :-)

This is very interesting ...

Regards
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