Re: mount.nfs: chk_mountpoint()

[Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>]

Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> The recent addition of the chk_mountpoint() function in 
> utils/mount/mount.c in nfs-utils commit 3b55934b has broken a 
> particular behavior of background mounts.
>
> nfs(5) states that, if the "bg" option is specified, "A missing mount 
> point is treated as a timeout, to allow for nested NFS mounts."
>
> If I try mounting an NFS share onto a non-existent directory while 
> using the "bg" option, I now get an immediate failure:
>
>   mount.nfs: mount point /mnt/nothere does not exist
>
> instead of the mount backgrounding itself to wait for /mnt/nothere to 
> show up.  This is because chk_mountpoint() is causing the mount 
> request to fail immediately.
>
> Is the documented bg retry behavior still desirable? 

Isn't this what autofs is for?  To be able to handle hierarchies
of mounts?

    Thanx...

       ps

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