Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Did you mean we need to validate differently for different servers? You may need to, yes, as different servers may make different attributes available. This isn't too bad. Each server index record in the cache has freeform auxiliary data, just as does each file data record. You could, say, stick a byte at the front that indicates what you've stored in there. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html