Re: [PATCH] nfs-utils: Allow users to disable mount option rewriting via norewriteopts mount option

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On 05/06/2015 04:28 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/20/2015 02:18 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote:
>>> Allow users to disable mount option rewriting via norewriteopts mount option.
>>> This was required in our case in order to allow mounting a filer which inappropriately responded via the wrong interface.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Again... This is fixing a filer bug, correct?
>>
>> We generally don't do that...
>>
>> steved.
> 
> This is working around a server bug on the client side, yes.
> 
That's tough... We generally don't do that because its becomes
a very slippy slope very quickly.... esp with adding a undocumented
mount flag we are going have to support forever...

This is something I just don't think is the right thing to do
so I'm going to NAK this patch. 

steved.


 
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