Re: sloppy mount option not handled by some filesystems.

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Ian Kent <ikent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I could leave it only for NFS, as it supports it anyway, and not pass it
> for any other mounts. Then any bug requests could be passed on the the
> file system maintainers. Then I could add it for that file system when
> done.
>
> The only annoyance with that approach is the autofs generic mount
> module, which is used to mount a number of file systems, would need to
> check the file system name to decide whether to add the sloppy option.
>
> TBH I'm not to fussy about what we do here but we need to make a
> decision before I do or I'll end up flipping back and forth.
>
> So I guess it's up to us to decide, ;)
>
> I'll post a message to the autofs list once we decide and see if we get
> any good arguments to change the approach and we can alter it as needed
> (if at all).

Hi Ian,

Any news about this?

There's more and morecomplaints about the new behavior.  I'm inclined
to just make it NFS-only, as that will restore the old state of
affairs.

Thanks,
Miklos
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