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

Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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