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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: NFS list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux NFSv4 mailing list <nfsv4@linux-nfs.org>,
	Jan Sanders <jsanders@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Subject: Re: NFS: unknown mount option: grpid
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:07:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FE3B52.5060907@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080410153449.GA9429@fieldses.org>



J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>>>> The mount call returns with EINVAL invalis argument.
>>>>>
>>>>>  From strace:
>>>>> mount("nfs-server:/volumes/www", "/vol/www", "nfs", MS_NOSUID,
>>>>> "grpid,addr=192.168.0.123") = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
>>>>>
>>
>> However, I was not aware of a requirement for NFS mount to ignore all  
>> options it doesn't understand.
>>
>> It's easy enough to add, I suppose.  Community opinion?
> 
> This is exactly what "-s" ("sloppy") is supposed to do, right?  At
> least, that's what "man mount" says.
Not exactly... Looking at the code it seems '-s' will cause the mount.nfs 
command to ignore unknown _nfs_ options. In this case it appears the
sys_mount call is failing which something different.

steved.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <56D1CF7A-BB26-4D07-B47D-9D43D55A1B8F@oracle.com>
     [not found]   ` <47FE2C2D.1070703@redhat.com>
2008-04-10 15:17     ` NFS: unknown mount option: grpid Chuck Lever
2008-04-10 15:34       ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-10 16:07         ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2008-04-14 12:34       ` Jan Sanders

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