On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > - document this as a fundamental fact, and apply the ncpfs patch. Local > > filesystems can still continue to use the generic helper functions > > (all other users _are_ local filesystems). > > Actually, looking at the ncpfs patch, I'd rather not apply that patch > as-is. It looks like it will totally disable symlink caching, which would > be kind of sad. Somebody willing to do the same thing NFS does?
It does disable link caching. But I didn't make this up. This is exactly what smbfs uses. I just copied smbfs given ncpfs copies almost everything smbfs does anyway... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ - 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/