On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:51:38 -0400 Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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> > > If the pathname has a ':' in it, I'd want to yell at someone. What > kind of sick person does that? :) For better or worse, ':' is a perfectly valid character in a POSIX directory name. Since we have to contend with servers (such as samba) that may share out directories with such that have that sort of prefixpath, then we have to be able to contend with them. > What would you propose? I'd be willing to document this if there is a > consensus. > I'd propose adding a patch that prints a warning to stderr whenever someone tries to use nfs-style "devicenames" that says we'll remove support for it in ~6.0 or so. Then, after 5.9 is released spin up a patch that removes support for that syntax. -- 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
