From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linware@sh.cvut.cz, fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:46:28 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0508192144590.7312@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508190934470.3412@g5.osdl.org>
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > - document this as a fundamental fact, and apply the ncpfs patch. Local
> > filesystems can still continue to use the generic helper functions
> > (all other users _are_ local filesystems).
>
> Actually, looking at the ncpfs patch, I'd rather not apply that patch
> as-is. It looks like it will totally disable symlink caching, which would
> be kind of sad. Somebody willing to do the same thing NFS does?
It does disable link caching. But I didn't make this up. This is exactly
what smbfs uses. I just copied smbfs given ncpfs copies almost everything
smbfs does anyway...
Best regards,
Anton
--
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-19 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-19 11:14 Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19 14:20 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 15:44 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19 15:58 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 16:21 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 16:53 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 18:02 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 18:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-19 19:38 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 19:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-08-19 19:43 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 21:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-19 20:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 21:20 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19 21:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 21:42 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 19:16 ` Mika Penttilä
2005-08-19 19:40 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 19:50 ` Mika Penttilä
2005-08-19 20:46 ` Anton Altaparmakov [this message]
2005-08-19 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 21:39 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 23:15 ` Al Viro
2005-08-19 23:17 ` Al Viro
2005-08-20 1:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-20 1:15 ` Al Viro
2005-08-20 12:49 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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