linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][Resend] Make NFS-Client readahead tunable

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Message-ID: <48D217E7.80702@melbourne.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:57:11 +1000
From:	Greg Banks <gnb@...bourne.sgi.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Martin Knoblauch <knobi@...bisoft.de>,
	linux-nfs list <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC][Resend] Make NFS-Client readahead tunable

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Martin Knoblauch <knobi@...bisoft.de> wrote:
>
>   
>>> No.  mount(8) will pass unrecognised options straight down into the
>>> filesystem driver.
>>>
>>>       
>>  Has that always been the case, or is it a recent change? I have to support RHEL4 userland, which is not really new.
>>     
>
> It's been that way for ever and ever.  It's how all these guys:
>
> y:/usr/src/25> grep Opt_ fs/*/super.c|wc
>     781    2626   33703
>
> get handled.
>   
NFS was...special...for a long time.

-- 
Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
Be like the squirrel.
I don't speak for SGI.

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