Re: [fuse-devel] dentry expiry instead of invalidation

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 at 01:28, Jakob Blomer <jb...@ce...> wrote:
>
> Apologies for the long silence!
>
> We meanwhile tested the patch and it works great!  It is exactly what we
> were looking for for a long time.  Besides allowing us to enable symlink
> caching, the patch also solves for us the problem of paths changing file
> type (e.g., directory to symlink).
>
> The only modification we applied is to add FUSE_CAP_DENTRY_EXPIRE_ONLY
> to libfuse in the spirit of the other CAP flags.
>
> We would very much love to see these changes upstreamed.  What can we do
> to help?

Applied, will shortly appear on:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse.git#for-next

Thanks,
Miklos
>
> Cheers,
> Laura & Jakob
>
>
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