From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] Permit filesystem local caching
 and NFS superblock sharing  [try #11]
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:55:26 -0400
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David Howells wrote:
> These patches make it possible to share NFS superblocks between related
> mounts, where "related" means on the same server and FSID. Inodes and dentries
> will be shared where the NFS filehandles are the same (for example if two NFS3
> files come from the same export but from different mounts, such as is not
> uncommon with autofs on /home).
> 
> These patches also add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS and
> AFS.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this in the upstream kernel... 
thanks for your continued work on this.

(Although I admit to not reviewing 100% of the code)

	Jeff