From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs-utils: Allow users to disable mount option rewriting via norewriteopts mount option
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 09:48:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <554B6D1F.2040207@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALs61uevioa8FgEbCuTO2JA+74mnH_PCAPUzpLfSzGJ-68729w@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/06/2015 04:28 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/20/2015 02:18 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote:
>>> Allow users to disable mount option rewriting via norewriteopts mount option.
>>> This was required in our case in order to allow mounting a filer which inappropriately responded via the wrong interface.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce@gmail.com>
>> Again... This is fixing a filer bug, correct?
>>
>> We generally don't do that...
>>
>> steved.
>
> This is working around a server bug on the client side, yes.
>
That's tough... We generally don't do that because its becomes
a very slippy slope very quickly.... esp with adding a undocumented
mount flag we are going have to support forever...
This is something I just don't think is the right thing to do
so I'm going to NAK this patch.
steved.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-07 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-20 18:18 [PATCH] nfs-utils: Allow users to disable mount option rewriting via norewriteopts mount option Gregory Boyce
2015-05-06 20:14 ` Steve Dickson
2015-05-06 20:28 ` Gregory Boyce
2015-05-07 13:48 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
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