On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 14:09:00 -0600 > > Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On Jan 4, 2013 12:26 PM, "Scott Lovenberg" <scott.lovenberg@xxxxxxxxx> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > wrote: > >> > > I am not as worried about code cleanliness as I am about losing > >> > > function, > >> > > especially as it is sometimes hard to figure out how many users > >> > > would be > >> > > affected by removing function. I mildly prefer leaving the nfs > >> > > syntax > >> > > if it makes it easier for nfs users to use smb3, but we could make > >> > > a stub > >> > > mount helper that parses nfs syntax and simply calls mount.cifs if > >> > > you > >> > > prefer that approach - in any case I don't feel strongly about nfs > >> > > syntax. > >> > > >> > I don't care much either way. The reason behind removing it, IIRC, > >> > was that it was an undocumented feature that lead to an ambiguous > >> > parsing situation when you had NFS syntax with an IPv6 address as the > >> > server portion of the string (ie > >> > dead:beef::1:/shareNameWithColon:/prepath). It was easier to remove > >> > the undocumented feature than to support it for this use case. > >> > > >> > How does NFS syntax make things easier for SMB3? > >> > >> UNC names may be unfamiliar for some NFS users. Smb3 has many > >> performance advantages and other features that may eventually be of > >> strong interest to some Linux NFS users > > Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but how does the nfs-utils mount > helper deal with parsing IPv6 addresses when using NFS syntax? Does > it just search for ":/" and assume that's the beginning of the share > name (which 99.99999% of the time it will be)? > -- > Peace and Blessings, > -Scott. I thought that NFS required that the IPv6 address be enclosed in brackets? I haven't tested this to see how mount.cifs would handle this (if it is broken presumably we should fix it) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_NFS_IPv6 -- Thanks, Steve -- Thanks, Steve -- 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
