Re: Status of mount.nfs

[Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 12:20 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
>> I'm not suggesting that we don't support mounting through a firewall. 
>> I'm wondering, though, how people expect it to work.  Is it acceptable 
>> to require a few extra mount options on clients to mount successfully 
>> through a firewall, or should a mount with no options whatsoever always 
>> work in this case?
> 
> The strategy should be to make the _default_ behaviour safe. If you want
> to add optimisations that need switching on/off then those may take
> extra mount options.

Exactly: is mounting through a firewall an optimization, or is it 
something that users expect, by default, to work without using extra 
options?

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