[PATCH 0/7] Permit filesystem local caching and NFS superblock sharing [try #13]

[David Howells]

Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net> wrote:

> autofs v4 doesn't rely on mkdir never returning EACCESS just that it
> return EEXIST if the directory exists. Never the less if the behavior of
> stat will work in this case I'll change v4 to do it the way you suggest
> (as v5 does already). 

As long as you don't rely on stat...mkdir working.  That can go wrong if the
dentry gets booted from the dcache by memory pressure in the "...".

David