On Tue, 06.06.17 14:07, Steve Dickson (SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Hello, > > On 05/29/2017 06:19 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > > > > Systemd does not, and will not, support "bg" correctly. > > It has other, better, ways to handle "background" mounting. > The only problem with this is bg mounts still work at least > up to 4.11 kernel... > > It appears there is a problem with a 4.12 kernel. The mount no > longer errors out with ECONNREFUSED it just hangs in the > kernel trying forever... It sounds like a bug to me but > maybe that change was intentional.. Anna?? Trond??? > > So I'm a bit hesitant to commit this since not accurate, yet. > > Finally, the whole idea of systemd randomly/silently > strip off mount options is crazy... IMHO... > > Just because a concept that has been around for years > does not fix well in the systemd world it gets > rip out??? IDK... but I think we can do better than that. Well "bg" doesn't really work on systemd systems, and this was never different, hence I think it's only fair to document that it is incompatible with systemd. In addition, I have the suspicion it is not used very widely, since I never actually got complaints about it. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- 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
