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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock
	sharing [try #13]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:48:08 +0100
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Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> 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