From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:36273 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751353AbbEGNsS (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 09:48:18 -0400 Message-ID: <554B6D1F.2040207@RedHat.com> Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 09:48:15 -0400 From: Steve Dickson MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregory Boyce CC: Linux NFS Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs-utils: Allow users to disable mount option rewriting via norewriteopts mount option References: <554A7626.1050709@RedHat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/06/2015 04:28 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Steve Dickson 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 >> 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.