Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:

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> > What I don't really understand is what value is gained by this exercise.
> > Are the savings sufficiently significant to justify the effort?
> 
> It is not about savings, but about new functionality. Basically, the
> existence of reference-counted credentials will allow AFS and NFS to
> cache that information and use it for deferred writes etc.

And also make it easier for cachefiles and hopefully NFSd to override the
active security.

There's a comment somewhere in, I think, the SunRPC code in the Linux kernel
bemoaning the lack of this very feature:-)

David
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