From: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
To: Hans Deragon <hans@deragon.biz>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: backfstype patch.
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:31:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E2C0BA.3070605@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40E1CCC3.1010809@deragon.biz>
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Hans Deragon wrote:
> Greetings.
>
>
> Attached, my patch for supporting backfstype. If the OS is Linux and
> cachefs is detected, this fs is ignored and no attempt is made to mount
> a cachefs kernel module (none exist). This way we avoid useless error
> messages in syslog.
>
> If mounting the fstype fails or is cachefs, backfstype is then tried.
>
> It works fine under RHL 9. Only one file was changed: parse_sun.c.
> The changes were made from the 4.1.3 branch. Changes are very localized
> and I believe they are safe (though code inspection is always desired).
>
> Please confirm if my patch has been accepted.
>
Why do this in the parser when it can easily be done in a mount module?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-30 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-29 20:10 backfstype patch Hans Deragon
2004-06-30 13:26 ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-30 14:00 ` raven
2004-06-30 15:01 ` Hans Deragon
2004-06-30 13:31 ` Mike Waychison [this message]
2004-06-30 13:51 ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-30 14:20 ` Mike Waychison
2004-06-30 14:22 ` Jeff Moyer
2004-06-30 15:11 ` Hans Deragon
2004-06-30 14:28 ` Mike Waychison
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-16 18:45 Hans Deragon
2004-07-16 19:01 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-03-02 21:03 ` Greg Bradner
2005-03-03 2:15 ` Ian Kent
2004-07-17 4:16 ` raven
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