regressions & flakiness make for ugly symlink links

[L A Walsh <cifs@tlinx.org>]

In my Windows root directory I have several links.  This is how
they look on the Windows machine's "root".  Several months ago I
sent an email to this list complimenting you on how they looked.
(without user+group)

> ll |grep -- '->'
lrwxrwxrwx   1           17 Jun 13  2016 Documents -> //Bliss/Documents/
lrwxrwxrwx   1            6 Jul 13  2009 Documents and Settings -> /Users/
lrwxrwxrwx   1           16 Jun  5  2015 FolderChanger -> /m/FolderChanger/
lrwxrwxrwx   1            5 May 13  2017 Home -> Users/
lrwxrwxrwx   1           20 Nov  6  2014 Prog -> /Program Files (x86)/
lrwxrwxrwx   1           13 Apr 21  2013 Prog64 -> Program Files/
lrwxrwxrwx   1           12 Aug  9  2015 ProgD -> /ProgramData/
lrwxrwxrwx   1            2 Apr 17  2017 Share -> /s/
lrwxrwxrwx   1           22 Aug 22 16:08 Symbols -> //Bliss/Share/Symbols//
lrwxrwxrwx   1            7 Mar  1  2018 WINNT -> Windows/
lrwxrwxrwx   1            3 May 13  2017 lib64 -> lib/
lrwxrwxrwx   1            3 Jan 12  2014 temp -> tmp/

Now, I'm getting flakiresults -- with them not resolving 1 time,
then resolving,  then not again...etc.  By flakey I mean
output like random can't access messages, followed by question
marks in all fields of links.

# ll|more
ls: cannot access 'D': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'Documents': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'FolderChanger': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'Home': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'lib64': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'M': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'P': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'pagefile.sys': Device or resource busy
ls: cannot access 'Prog64': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'Share': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'temp': Operation not supported
ls: cannot access 'WINNT': Operation not supported
d????????? ?       ?            ? D/
d????????? ?       ?            ? Documents/
d????????? ?       ?            ? FolderChanger/
d????????? ?       ?            ? Home/
d????????? ?       ?            ? M/
d????????? ?       ?            ? P/
d????????? ?       ?            ? Prog64/
d????????? ?       ?            ? Share/
d????????? ?       ?            ? WINNT/
d????????? ?       ?            ? lib64/
d????????? ?       ?            ? temp/

Depending on timing, Sometimes I will get most or all of
them appearing the same as they would on windows.

If I can't resolve them more quickly, is there a know
or two to increase cache size and item lifetime?

Thanks