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

Greg Banks
2009-01-22T22:55:34Z

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:59:49AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
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>> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
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>> Interesting.... Store something like a reason code (similar to what they have
>> in he Kerberos)
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> Maybe.
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>> in somewhere in the proc file system?
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> But then I don't know how you'd associate it with a particular mount
> attempt.
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You could do something truly awful like add a new code in the unused
bits of the errno value returned from mount. It would confuse an
unmodified userspace, but reporting "Unknown Error" isn't much less
useful than "I/O Error".

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