Re: sloppy mount option not handled by some filesystems.

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Ian Kent <ikent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Okay.

If you have a patch, please let me know and I'll review and test it.

Thanks,
Miklos
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