Re: 4.1 no-pnfs mount option?

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Hi,

Isn't by mount a plausible way to select for pnfs independent of debugging?  Is it assured that a client administrator would never reasonably wish to do this?

Matt

----- "Trond Myklebust" <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 
> > Such a mount option could be useful for dealing with buggy servers
> (pnfs-wise) so you
> > could mount one server with pnfs and another without.
> 
> You can find ways around that. Just use 2 clients: one with pnfs
> switched on, and one with it off.
> 
> I really don't want to introduce mount options upstream unless they
> are
> useful in the long term. One off usefulness does not pass that test.
> 
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