On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 01:45:33PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > Note it also takes the convention that junctions should have the sticky > bit set without being executable, and it does those checks before > checking for the xattr, so it shouldn't be doing an xattr read for every > lookup. > > Grepping for S_NOSEC.... "no suid or xattr security attributes". But > "junction.type" isn't a "security attribute", is it? I may not > understand what that means. It's basically to avoid doing getxattr calls if not needed. So far this was just for security xattrs, but this one falls into a pretty similar category. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html