svn commit: r188832 - head/sys/nfsclient

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:25:04PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> >URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/188832
> 
> Not too long ago, this was a very useful and important optimization. 
> Can you say which servers this applies to?  Could it have been made an
> option instead of outright deleted?


At work, I was talking to a senior engineer at Netapp who looked
at the FreeBSD NFS client code, and recommended that this very change
be made for FreeBSD, i.e. replace ACCESS RPC calls with GETATTR RPC calls.

ACCESS calls involve more work on the server for evaluating ACLS and UID
mappings. 

-- 
Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc at crodrigues.org