On 08/28/2009 12:59 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:53:01PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: >>> As soon as it doesn't work return an error, unwind >>> and return to userspace? >> Then why not simply stay in user space? > > I just told you the merging the two file_system_type implementations > (actually more than two, for some reason nfs alone has more than all > other network filesystems combined) is easy and beneficial for the > quality of the kernel code. If there's something in the behaviour > of the userspace mount helpers not actually making it useful it's > up to you to decide if you want to do it or not. > Point taken... merging file systems is not hard... but that was not the point of this patch... the point of this patch was to make it easier (or more straightforward) to mount the existing nfs4 file system... nothing more and nothing less... Personally I see no reason to merge file systems especially just to make it easier to mount one of them.. 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
