Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

Trond Myklebust
2007-08-31T05:04:32Z

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 21:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> > It did not. The previous behaviour was to always silently override the
> > user mount options.
>
> ..so it still worked for any sane setup, at least.
>
> You broke that. Hua gave good reasons for why he cannot use the current
> kernel. It's a regression.
>
> In other words, the new behaviour is *worse* than the behaviour you
> consider to be the incorrect one.

So you are saying that it is acceptable for the kernel to decide
unilaterally to override mount options? Why aren't we doing that for any
other filesystem than NFS?

Trond