Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13]

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 10:40 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 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 "...".

I'm not clear on your point here.

If I stat a path and it exists then all is good and I'm done.
If I stat a path and I get something other than ENOENT then all is bad
and I return fail.
Otherwise I can just attempt to create the directory and fail if all is
bad with that.

This approach works in the current situation and would work for the
other situations in which that same process is used, not just for NFS
filesystems.

> 
> David
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