[linux-cifs-client] Broken client-side caching - fixed by means of PATCH for 2.6 kern el (included)

[Dave Stahl]

Great, Vince!

I hope we can get this into the mainline kernel soonish, it's a much 
needed fix, for me anyway!

Dave Stahl
Sr. Software Engineer
Symantec Security Response

"Vince Negri (ASL)" <vnegri at asl-electronics.co.uk> wrote on 04/04/2005 
03:45:51 AM:

> Thanks to the co-operation of a number of people, notably Dave Stahl
> and Esteban Salazar, I now have updated patches against recent 2.6.x
> kernels that fix the issues both I and Dave were reporting. Dave in
> particular has done a lot of real-world testing on multiple machines.
> 
> To recap, the original issue was that when using the cifs VFS module
> on the client, an operation that required a read of the whole directory
> (such as "ls -l *") would insert updated file size/time information
> into the client-side inode without invalidating any cached data pages
> related to that file. 
> 
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