Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13] | Date | Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:40:49 +0100 |
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Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> autofs v4 doesn't rely on mkdir never returning EACCESS just that it > return EEXIST if the directory exists. Never the less if the behavior of > stat will work in this case I'll change v4 to do it the way you suggest > (as v5 does already).
As long as you don't rely on stat...mkdir working. That can go wrong if the dentry gets booted from the dcache by memory pressure in the "...".
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