>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> Also note that the regular "symlink in page cache" helper
> routines might notbe appropriate even for "normal"
> filesystems. Somebody mentioned the "symlink depends on user"
> issue with some NFS servers. That could be handled by using the
> page cache and indexing it on the "uid", instead of always
> using index 0. But it would mean that the page cache helper
> functions couldn't be used directly for such a symlink setup.
Actually, NFS already has a private scheme precisely because of the
page_symlink 'brokenness'.
Are you serious about the uid indexing thing though? It'd be dead easy
to implement, but do we really want something like this in generic NFS?
Personally, I would have thought that a mount option to turn off
caching of readdir/symlinks/... would be a better solution for those
few cases that need it.
Cheers,
Trond
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