Re: sloppy mount option not handled by some filesystems.

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On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 18:52 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 11:11 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Good question, I must admit I had forgotten about it since with the
> report I had the subsystem changed to ignore the option.
> 
> I was going to not pass it from autofs and I have a patch for that.
> We could use that, after I check I've cover the bases, and I'll commit
> it upstream with the next set of patches (that might be a little while
> though).

Leaving it for NFS only, of course.

> 
> Ian


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