On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:23:41 -0500 Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I saw various people use the NFS syntax for cifs - it probably helps > with portability a little > What sort of portability? Note that there is a cost in long term maintenance in supporting so many ways to specify a mount. IPv6 support is a good case in point. Clearly that wasn't considered when this syntax was implemented. Another good example is the username=DOMAIN/username%password syntax, which pretty much prevents those delimiter characters from being used in the username. While it sounds nice to add this sort of stuff, it's problematic to maintain over the long haul. IMO, we're better served by insisting that people specify their mounts in a fairly rigid fashion, and simply document that well. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
