Chuck Lever wrote: > Steve Dickson wrote: >> This patch fixes a regression that was introduced by the string based >> mounts. >> nfs_mount() statically returns -EACCES for every error returned >> by the remote mounted. This is incorrect because -EACCES is >> an non-fatal error to the mount.nfs command. This error causes >> mount.nfs to retry the mount even in the case when the exported >> directory does not exist. > > I don't doubt this is the case, but I'd like to see a few real world > examples (maybe even add them as documentary comments in mount.nfs or in > the kernel). Thats easy.. Do a Fedora install over NFS and mistype the mount point. Instead of returning immediately like it should, one has to wait 2mins for the error.. ENOENT during a mount has always been a fatal error as it should be and this patch is just restoring that fact. steved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
