From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965044AbWIEJsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:48:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965041AbWIEJsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:48:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:47277 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965023AbWIEJsQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:48:16 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1157424937.3002.4.camel@raven.themaw.net> References: <1157424937.3002.4.camel@raven.themaw.net> <20060901195009.187af603.akpm@osdl.org> <20060831102127.8fb9a24b.akpm@osdl.org> <20060830135503.98f57ff3.akpm@osdl.org> <20060830125239.6504d71a.akpm@osdl.org> <20060830193153.12446.24095.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <27414.1156970238@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <9849.1157018310@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <9534.1157116114@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060901093451.87aa486d.akpm@osdl.org> <1157130044.5632.87.camel@localhost> <28945.1157370732@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <1157376295.3240.13.camel@raven.themaw.net> <1157421445.5510.13.camel@localhost> To: Ian Kent Cc: Trond Myklebust , David Howells , Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, steved@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13] X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:48:08 +0100 Message-ID: <3840.1157449688@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ian Kent wrote: > Why the hell shouldn't it be able to do an mkdir! The use of mkdir in this manner has to be considered a bug. You don't know that the object at that name on the server is a directory. It might be a symbolic link. David From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13] Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:48:08 +0100 Message-ID: <3840.1157449688@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <1157424937.3002.4.camel@raven.themaw.net> <20060901195009.187af603.akpm@osdl.org> <20060831102127.8fb9a24b.akpm@osdl.org> <20060830135503.98f57ff3.akpm@osdl.org> <20060830125239.6504d71a.akpm@osdl.org> <20060830193153.12446.24095.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <27414.1156970238@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <9849.1157018310@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <9534.1157116114@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060901093451.87aa486d.akpm@osdl.org> <1157130044.5632.87.camel@localhost> <28945.1157370732@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <1157376295.3240.13.camel@raven.themaw.net> <1157421445.5510.13.camel@localhost> Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, steved@redhat.com, David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1157424937.3002.4.camel@raven.themaw.net> To: Ian Kent List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfsv4-bounces@linux-nfs.org Errors-To: nfsv4-bounces@linux-nfs.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Ian Kent wrote: > Why the hell shouldn't it be able to do an mkdir! The use of mkdir in this manner has to be considered a bug. You don't know that the object at that name on the server is a directory. It might be a symbolic link. David