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Message-Id: <1189007414.13235.20.camel@gaula.trondhjem.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:50:14 +0100
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@...nkvm.com>,
Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>,
'Linux Kernel Mailing List' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:37 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net> wrote:
>
> > But what about mounting with different protocol, tcp vs udp for example.
>
> I was referring specifically to the R/O / R/W variants of the same mount. Any
> flag variation that varies the way the NFS client talks to the NFS server must
> either result in a new superblock or be ignored.
>
> David
We currently ignore remount requests that attempt to change the NFS
mount parameters. This is not new behaviour, BTW: it has always been the
case, and nobody has ever requested it.
The ro flag is different, and I agree that it should be moved to the
vfsmount structure. I'm hoping Dave Hansen's patches will be ready for
merging soon...
Trond
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