On 14-Apr-2000 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Hmm.. I like the fact that it removes a lot of code.
>>
>
> Yes, autofs v3 does a lot of extra work by sheer virtue of having been
> written before the dcache existed. Using the dcache is clearly the
> right thing to do.
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.
J
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