From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: chuck.lever@oracle.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 12:37:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FF93C3.8040109@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FF902C.40301@oracle.com>
Chuck Lever wrote:
> 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.
>
> I don't doubt this is the case, but I'd like to see a few real world
> examples (maybe even add them as documentary comments in mount.nfs or in
> the kernel).
Thats easy.. Do a Fedora install over NFS and mistype the mount
point. Instead of returning immediately like it should, one has to
wait 2mins for the error..
ENOENT during a mount has always been a fatal error as it should be
and this patch is just restoring that fact.
steved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-11 16:37 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
[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 [this message]
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2008-04-11 16:05 Steve Dickson
2008-04-12 0:03 Steve Dickson
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