Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code andmmap

[Anton Altaparmakov]

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
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