On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:01:33 -0400 Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff Layton wrote: > > When remounting an NFS or NFS4 filesystem, the new NFS options are not > > respected, yet the remount will still return success. This patch adds > > a remount_fs sb op for NFS that checks any new nfs mount options against > > the existing ones and fails the mount if any have changed. > > > > This is only implemented for string-based mount options since doing > > this with binary options isn't really feasible. > > It might be feasible if mount.nfs were smart enough to read /etc/mtab > and merge the old mount options with the remount options. Yeah, but in that case you'd need a new kernel + a new nfs-utils. If you're going to do that then you might as well just use the (far superior) string based options anyway. IMO, it's not worth the effort to implement this for binary options... -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
