Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I don't really understand is what value is gained by this exercise. > > Are the savings sufficiently significant to justify the effort? > > It is not about savings, but about new functionality. Basically, the > existence of reference-counted credentials will allow AFS and NFS to > cache that information and use it for deferred writes etc.
And also make it easier for cachefiles and hopefully NFSd to override the active security. There's a comment somewhere in, I think, the SunRPC code in the Linux kernel bemoaning the lack of this very feature:-) David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
