From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Get normalized paths for comparing NFS export paths
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:03:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5402E4.4030506@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330903600.14357.10.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
On 03/04/2012 06:26 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 17:58 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> So to restate... this normalizing of the path names (aka striping
>> multiple slashes or added the leading slash) only need to occur on
>> (successful) v4 mounts... Although the former would not be an
>> problem with v2/v3 mounts but its not needed....
>
> Normalising for v4 only is OK as far as I'm concerned, but as an
> alternative: is there any reason why you can't just grab the path from
> '/proc/mounts'?
>
Well in some distros /etc/mtab is symbolically linked to /proc/mounts
so this problem does not exist. But from what I've been told not
all distros do that. Plus being backward compatible with older
release of distro is a good thing... IMHO...
steved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-03 1:42 [PATCH] Check for beginning '/' in the mount path Malahal Naineni
2012-02-03 11:15 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-02-03 12:16 ` NeilBrown
2012-02-03 14:29 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-02-05 11:03 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-02-06 18:11 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-02-07 20:44 ` [PATCH] Get normalized paths for comparing NFS export paths Malahal Naineni
2012-02-16 18:09 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-03-02 19:10 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-02 19:27 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-03-02 20:57 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-02 22:01 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-03-03 17:39 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-03 19:12 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-04 22:31 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-04 22:46 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-04 23:08 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-05 4:46 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-03-05 12:03 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-04 22:58 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-04 23:26 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-05 0:03 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2012-03-05 2:04 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-05 4:53 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-03-05 11:55 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-05 14:47 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-03-05 15:03 ` Steve Dickson
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