Re: Re: new regression from cifs open on lookup patches

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:59:10AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> At this point, we need to consider what to do for 2.6.30. We're looking
> at the 3rd regression from these patches. I'm strongly of the opinion
> that committing them was premature, and that they should be pulled and
> deferred until they are better tested.
> 
> Open on lookup is a nice optimization but ultimately this is something
> that we can live without until it's working correctly.

Personally I would prefer this to be reverted.  The VFS intent support in
it's current form is a really fragile mess and the best thing would be
to wait for Al to get this sorted out.

> 
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