1 From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/10] cifs: define superblock-level cache index objects and register them
3 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:58:10 +0100
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45 Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
47 > Define superblock-level cache index objects (managed by cifsTconInfo
48 > structs). Each superblock object is created in a server-level index object
49 > and in itself an index into which inode-level objects are inserted.
51 > Currently, the superblock objects are keyed by sharename.
53 Seems reasonable. Is there any way you can check that the share you are
54 looking at on a server is the same as the last time you looked? Can you
55 validate the root directory of the share in some way?