Re: whither NFS umount?

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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:56:01 -0400
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:45:57 -0400
> Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I would say send the UMNT, since it does not cause any pain to send it
> > verses the pain that could be cause by not sending it...
> > 
> > This is a perfect example of fixing something that is not
> > broken... We can put our energy in better place that worrying
> > about things like this... IMHO...
> 
> But it *is* broken. As Chuck pointed out, the main problem is that mtab
> handling is broken on remounts. That's a real problem that needs to be
> fixed.
> 
> I agree that our time is better spent elsewhere. I just think that we
> ought to make that happen by eliminating the unnecessary umount helper.
> The less code that we need to maintain, the better...
> 

Sorry, let me clarify... we'll still need to fix -o remount handling in
mount.nfs. At the same time though, we can reduce our maintenance
burden by getting rid of umount.nfs.

I just don't think it serves much of a purpose these days...

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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