Resending to proper Jeff's address... On Wed 14-08-19 19:33:45, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello Jeff, > > we've got a report from user > (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1145007) wondering why his fstab > entry (for root filesystem!) using 'mand' mount option stopped working. > Now I understand your rationale in 9e8925b67a "locks: Allow disabling > mandatory locking at compile time" but I guess there's some work to do wrt > documentation. At least mount(8) manpage could mention that mandatory > locking is broken and may be disabled referencing the rationale in fcntl > manpage? Or the kernel could mention something in the log about failing > mount because of 'mand' mount option? What do you think? Because it took > me some code searching to understand why the mount is actually failing > which we can hardly expect from a normal sysadmin... > > Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
