On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 16:47 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 16:34 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > Trond, NFS_MOUNT_FLAGMASK is used in nfs_init_server() and
> > nfs4_init_server() for both legacy binary and text-based mounts.  This
> > needs to be moved to a legacy-only path if we want to use the
> > high-order 16 bits in the 'flags' field for text-based mounts.
> 
> We definitely want to do this. The point of introducing text-based
> mounts was to allow us to add functionality without having to worry
> about legacy binary mount formats. The mask should be there in order to
> ensure that binary formats don't start enabling features that they
> cannot support. There is no justification for applying it to the text
> mount path.

I've attached the patch...

Cheers
  Trond
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
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