[OpenAFS-devel] fileserver looping to clear up callbacks...

[Chaskiel M Grundman]

--On Friday, August 23, 2002 07:06:54 -0500 Nathan Neulinger 
<nneul@umr.edu> wrote:

> I wonder what sort of performance impact that has? By revoking
> callbacks, that is essentially expiring the data in the caches at the
> client?
It forces the client to fetch the status information for the file again. As 
long as the vnode still exists and it's dataversion hasn't changed, the 
data in the cache will still be good, and the client will know not to 
refetch it.