From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/10] cifs: define inode-level cache object and register them
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:02:53 +0100
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Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Define inode-level data storage objects (managed by cifsInodeInfo structs).
> Each inode-level object is created in a super-block level object and is
> itself a data storage object in to which pages from the inode are stored.
> 
> The inode object is keyed by UniqueId. The coherency data being used is
> LastWriteTime and the file size.

Isn't there a file creation time too?

I take it you don't support caching on files that are open for writing at this
time?

David