[Samba] How samba guarantee close-to-open consistency?

[jie wang]

Yes, we implement a vfs module which has cache. And we want to get
attributes from cache when samba calls openat.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 9:37 PM Ralph Boehme <slow at samba.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 6/23/22 13:25, jie wang via samba wrote:
> >       I'm curious about how samba guarantee close-to-open consistency,
> does
> > it need to  get all newest attributes from backend storage, when samba
> call
> > vfs_{vfs module}_openat, rather than use the cache in vfs module.
>
> oh, that's simple, there is no cache. :) At least not in upstream Samba.
> The question kind of implies you're using a non upstream VFS module that
> implements caching?
>
> -slow
>
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