Re: [PATCH] address_space_operations unification

From: Jamie Lokier (lfs@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 06:27:52 EST


Alexander Viro wrote:
> > I'd be happy with this - admit up front that the data is not always
> > available. Sometimes the filesystem might _wish_ for it, but we can't
> > always have what we wish for ;)
>
> Wonderful. If that is done (and ->readpage() on symlinks falls into that
> cathegory - no struct file* around) I have no problems with passing struct
> file *.

I have one question. Does this work with NFS servers that return
different symlink values for different users? Or is that still reliable
by turning off cacheing at the client?

thanks,
-- Jamie

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