Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

hyc@OpenLDAP.org wrote:

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Some ideas that came out of discussions at the Ubuntu Developer Summit this week...

It would be nice for pcache to detect when connectivity to the remote server has been lost. In that case, cache expiration should be stopped, and the cache contents should remain intact until connectivity is restored.

Sounds fair.

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Also, when connectivity is restored, pcache should explicitly refresh all the entries it currently holds, rather than allowing them to be immediately expired.

Sounds an overkill?

Perhaps. It is certainly likely that any entries in the cache will be stale; when connectivity is restored and expiration is re-enabled the cached entries will probably be immediately removed. While it will be no problem to retrieve the entries again since the network is available, the concern is that only a subset of the originally cached entries will be retrieved through normal user activity, but the entire set needs to be preserved in anticipation of the next disconnect event.