RE: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Vivek Goyal <[e-mail]> writes:

     > You are right. But our idea is to provide an option to
     > disable/enable caching based on the nature of intended
     > application.

Apart from hlfsd, which applications actually depend on symlinks not
being cached?

     > With this, Linux will have enhanced flexibility in NFS client
     > like other operating systems. For example.

Again: Do you have any concrete examples of programs that need this
functionality, and that cannot be replaced?

Cheers,
  Trond