Re: VFS + path walktrough

[Al Viro]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:23:09PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> Assuming the server doesn't resolve symlinks itself,

Um...  What the hell are you talking about?  How _can_ server resolve
symlinks, when result of symlink resolution depends on where the damn
thing is mounted on client and even how deeply the process trying to
do lookup happens to be chrooted?

It wouldn't work even for relative symlinks - remember that we might
bloody well have something bound on the middle of the path in question.
Without any knowledge by fs.

> Naive question: is it really *necessary* to have all the 
> intermediate dirs in dcache ?

The answer's "yes".
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