From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Cc: Fedora Kernel Mailing list <fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com>,
Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS Client mounts hang when exported directory do not exist
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:20:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207927210.3379.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FF7FCC.2050403-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 11:12 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> This patch fixes a regression that was introduced by the string based mounts.
>
> nfs_mount() statically returns -EACCES for every error returned
> by the remote mounted. This is incorrect because -EACCES is
> an non-fatal error to the mount.nfs command. This error causes
> mount.nfs to retry the mount even in the case when the exported
> directory does not exist.
>
> This patch maps the errors returned by the remote mountd into
> valid errno values, exactly how it was done pre-string based
> mounts. By returning the correct errno enables mount.nfs
> to do the right thing.
Does this mean the EACCES can/will again become fatal in mount.nfs like
it used to be?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439807
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-11 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-11 15:12 [PATCH] NFS Client mounts hang when exported directory do not exist Steve Dickson
[not found] ` <47FF7FCC.2050403-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-04-11 15:20 ` Eric Paris [this message]
[not found] ` <1207927210.3379.1.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2008-04-11 16:10 ` Steve Dickson
[not found] ` <47FF8D6A.9040902-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-04-11 18:35 ` Eric Paris
[not found] ` <1207938902.3379.7.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2008-04-12 0:14 ` Steve Dickson
2008-04-11 16:22 ` Chuck Lever
2008-04-11 16:37 ` Steve Dickson
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2008-04-11 16:05 Steve Dickson
2008-04-12 0:03 Steve Dickson
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