Re: [PATCH] rpc.nfsd: mount up nfsdfs is it doesn't appear to be mounted yet

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:18:46PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> I really don't think we need to rip the guts out of 
> mountd and exportfs just to remove this one nfsctl() in rpc.nfsd.

I agree.

> > Dropping backwards compatibility may be a reasonable thing to do, but
> > it's something that we should be very clear about, and that we should
> > put in a patch that does that and nothing else.
> So you are talking about doing a complete rewrite of mountd and exportfs
> just to take out that one call from rpc.nfsd... I just don't see the
> justification... If we are going to do that, let just think about rewriting
> all the tools to make the more v4 friendly... something we talked about
> at the last bakeathon...

All I'm asking is that any patch which disables support for older
kernels (by ceasing to do the nfsctl) be a *separate* patch that clearly
states which kernels we're dropping support for.

Once we decide to drop such support (if we do), that might allow us to
rip out a lot of additional code.  That can be done later.

--b.