From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: chuck.lever@oracle.com
Cc: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS mount operation
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:51:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213829515.25182.78.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48598F59.2040505@oracle.com>
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 18:42 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Peter Staubach wrote:
> > It seems unfortunate that the convention couldn't have been to
> > look for the first instance of ":/" and break the strings there.
>
> I wonder if you can ever specify an export path that does not begin with
> a '/' -- is that possible when mounting an NFS server that exports, say,
> an old-fashioned HFS volume?
It is quite legal to specify a path that doesn't start with '/':
NFSv2/v3 mount servers will, for instance, just implicitly assume it.
For that reason, there were user complaints the last time we started
requiring the '/' and returning an error when it wasn't supplied.
--
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer
NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
www.netapp.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-18 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 22:31 [PATCH 0/4] NFS mounting with raw IPv6 server hostnames (take 2) Chuck Lever
[not found] ` <20080618222951.16006.3679.stgit-ewv44WTpT0t9HhUboXbp9zCvJB+x5qRC@public.gmane.org>
2008-06-18 22:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] NFS: Use common device name parsing logic for NFSv4 and NFSv2/v3 Chuck Lever
2008-06-18 22:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS mount operation Chuck Lever
[not found] ` <20080618223203.16006.61765.stgit-ewv44WTpT0t9HhUboXbp9zCvJB+x5qRC@public.gmane.org>
2008-06-18 22:35 ` Peter Staubach
2008-06-18 22:42 ` Chuck Lever
2008-06-18 22:51 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2008-06-18 22:59 ` Peter Staubach
2008-06-18 22:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] NFS: Add string length argument to nfs_parse_server_address Chuck Lever
[not found] ` <20080618223211.16006.8247.stgit-ewv44WTpT0t9HhUboXbp9zCvJB+x5qRC@public.gmane.org>
2008-06-19 17:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-06-18 22:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] NFS: handle interface identifiers in incoming IPv6 addresses Chuck Lever
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2008-06-23 16:36 [PATCH 0/4] NFS mounting with raw IPv6 server hostnames (take 3) Chuck Lever
[not found] ` <20080623163129.10539.15565.stgit-ewv44WTpT0t9HhUboXbp9zCvJB+x5qRC@public.gmane.org>
2008-06-23 16:36 ` [PATCH 2/4] NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS mount operation Chuck Lever
2008-06-17 18:17 [PATCH 0/4] NFS mounting with raw IPv6 server hostnames Chuck Lever
[not found] ` <20080617181622.3215.61295.stgit-ewv44WTpT0t9HhUboXbp9zCvJB+x5qRC@public.gmane.org>
2008-06-17 18:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS mount operation Chuck Lever
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