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

[Ian Kent]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 10:48 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Ian Kent <raven at themaw.net> wrote:
> 
> > Why the hell shouldn't it be able to do an mkdir!
> 
> The use of mkdir in this manner has to be considered a bug.  You don't know
> that the object at that name on the server is a directory.  It might be a
> symbolic link.

Fair call.