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+From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 05/10] cifs: define superblock-level cache index objects and register them
+Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:58:33 +0100
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+To: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
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+Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> wrote:
+
+> Also, considering the UNC name of the resource (//server/share) may not
+> be a good idea too as the cache will not be used when for e.g. IPaddress
+> is used to mount.
+
+You could convert the UNC name to an IP address, and just use that as your
+key.
+
+> > validate the root directory of the share in some way?
+>
+> I don't know if there is a way to do this.
+
+Is there an inode number or something? Even the creation time might do.
+
+David
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