On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:00 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 17:53 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 11:50 -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> > > The patch in the following Bugzilla adds nfsmountopts flag to Anaconda.
> > > This is parsed by loader and used in the doPwMount function when the NFS
> > > client mounts /mnt/source.
> > >
> > > This is needed to override the kickstart kernel defaults in RHEL 4 of
> > > rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp. If tcp was being used, the large
> > > rsize,wsize would not be a problem. With udp, however, large
> > > rsize,wsize is causing longer installation times due to retransmissions.
> [snip]
> > For the other side of things, I'd rather see the nfs options in the
> > 'nfs' kickstart directive and with special handling in ks=nfs:... rather
> > than making another bit of global data. Although this doesn't help the
> > interactive case right now, we'll probably going to have to do something
> > for when we add NFSv4 support anyway, so this is a logical step to move
> > things in the right direction.
>
> Had a chance to look at doing this part of things?
No, I have not checked out CVS head to see your changes. Did you expect
me to provide a patch as well? The last email I read said you committed
something to CVS head to change doPwMount.
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On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 17:53 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> If we're going to make changes to doPwMount, we should probably make it
> closer to just a wrapper of mount(2). The various integer flags should
> probably become a bitmask. The account and password arguments are only
> there for (obsolete) SMB support, so should just be dropped. Instead of
> adding an NFS specific option, maybe doing just a pointer to fs specific
> options makes more sense. I'll probably do this later tonight now that
> I've written out a description of it ;)
And committed to HEAD, we'll see if I broke anything :-)
Jeremy
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