Gentle reminder!! -Prince. On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM Prince Kumar <princer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Team, > > I'm implementing Readdirplus support in GCSFuse > (https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/gcsfuse) and have observed > behavior that seems to contradict my understanding of its purpose. > > When Readdirplus returns ChildInodeEntry, I expect the kernel to use > this information and avoid subsequent lookup calls for those entries. > However, I'm seeing lookup calls persist for these entries unless an > entry_timeout is explicitly set. > > One similar open issue on the libfuse github repo: > https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/issues/235, which is closed but > seems un-resolved. > > 1. Could you confirm if this is the expected behavior, or a kernel side issue? > 2. Also, is there a way other than setting entry_timeout, to suppress > these lookup entries calls after the Readdirplus call? > > Regards, > Prince Kumar.
