Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> However because I can't keep persistent information attached to a dentry,
> I may need to add some lightweight skeleton to remember it. Otherwise
> you can really kill a machine's performance with lots of rapid failing
> requests.
>
Actually, that's something that autofs v3 *does* keep in the dentry; by
keeping a negative dentry which eventually gets invalidated (by using a
timer.) That works great in the case of requests that fail quickly. I
don't worry too much about stuff that fail during mount, since the mount
tends to be a rate limiter anyway.
-hpa
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