[OpenAFS] AFS cache

[Phil.Moore@morganstanley.com]

>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Moore <Phil.Moore@morganstanley.com> writes:
>>>>> "Love" == Love  <lha@stacken.kth.se> writes:

Phil> If the Finder were to call fsync() every N bytes (I'd say every MB or
Phil> so), then you would get much more useful feedback from the progress
Phil> bars, as you would be effectively interleaving the cache and network
Phil> writes, from the viewpoint of the Finder.

Love> It would behave very poorly on filesytems that does whole file
Love> caching...

Can you explain this to me?   I don't necessarily follow....