Re: [PATCH] more autofs4 fixes for 2.3.99-pre5

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On 14-Apr-2000 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Hmm.. I like the fact that it removes a lot of code.
>> 
> 
> Yes, autofs v3 does a lot of extra work by sheer virtue of having been
> written before the dcache existed.  Using the dcache is clearly the
> right thing to do.

However because I can't keep persistent information attached to a dentry,
I may need to add some lightweight skeleton to remember it.  Otherwise
you can really kill a machine's performance with lots of rapid failing
requests.

        J