From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265064AbTFCPxK (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:53:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265065AbTFCPxK (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:53:10 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:53713 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265064AbTFCPwM (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:52:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16092.50997.483311.566882@charged.uio.no> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:05:09 +0200 To: "Vivek Goyal" Cc: "Ion Badulescu" , , , , , , Subject: RE: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client In-Reply-To: <2BB7146B38D9CA40B215AB3DAAE24C080BA622@blr-m2-msg.wipro.com> References: <2BB7146B38D9CA40B215AB3DAAE24C080BA622@blr-m2-msg.wipro.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no From: Trond Myklebust X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have ques\tions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> " " == Vivek Goyal writes: > You are right. But our idea is to provide an option to > disable/enable caching based on the nature of intended > application. Apart from hlfsd, which applications actually depend on symlinks not being cached? > With this, Linux will have enhanced flexibility in NFS client > like other operating systems. For example. Again: Do you have any concrete examples of programs that need this functionality, and that cannot be replaced? Cheers, Trond