From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/10] cifs: define superblock-level cache index objects and register them Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:58:33 +0100 Message-ID: <22746.1277470713@redhat.com> References: <4C24A4A0.90408@suse.de> <1277220206-3559-1-git-send-email-sjayaraman@suse.de> <9720.1277312290@redhat.com> Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Steve French , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Suresh Jayaraman Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C24A4A0.90408@suse.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-cifs.vger.kernel.org Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > Also, considering the UNC name of the resource (//server/share) may not > be a good idea too as the cache will not be used when for e.g. IPaddress > is used to mount. You could convert the UNC name to an IP address, and just use that as your key. > > validate the root directory of the share in some way? > > I don't know if there is a way to do this. Is there an inode number or something? Even the creation time might do. David