Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] NFS: trace points added to mounting path

J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-22T16:45:03Z

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:59:49AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> > On the mount case specifically: How far are we from the idea of a mount
> > program that can identify most problems itself? I know its error
> > reporting has gotten better....
> >
> > I suppose the main feedback mount gets right now is an error code from
> > the mount system call, and that may be too narrow an interface to cover
> > most problems. Is there some way we can give mount a real interface it
> > can use to find out this stuff instead of just dumping more strings into
> > the logs?
> Interesting.... Store something like a reason code (similar to what they have
> in he Kerberos)

Maybe.

> in somewhere in the proc file system?

But then I don't know how you'd associate it with a particular mount
attempt.

--b.

> Its seems to me this is a common problem among network file systems...