On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 15:19 -0400, Peter Staubach 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. > > What about respecting the new options as makes sense and rejecting > those which absolutely can't be changed dynamically? If we were to do this, then how should superblocks that are shared between multiple mountpoints behave? Cheers Trond -- 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
