On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:29:59 -0400 Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Neil Brown wrote: > > > Two observations I've made while exploring which are only tangential to the > > current issue: > > > > 1/ if I give an invalid proto name > > mount -o proto=fred ..... > > the mount command fails (as it should) but gives no error message. > > I was not able to reproduce this. I get an appropriate error message from mount.nfs when built either with TI-RPC or without. I'm using the latest upstream nfs-utils + my mountd patches. > Ahh yes, fixed by commit 9ac7a15017b876d4d8d3a4502ebaf954f36f7f54 Author: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 3 08:53:22 2010 -0400 mount.nfs: silently fails when the network protocol is not found mount.nfs should display some type of error diagnostics when the network protocol can not be determined. Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, NeilBrown -- 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