From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: drzeus-list@drzeus.cx, staubach@redhat.com, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org,
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NFS] What's slated for inclusion in 2.6.24-rc1 from the NFS client git tree...
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:59:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071004125916.dbe4fd13.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191525363.6739.12.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:16:03 -0400
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> > >
> > > That would be perfect. It can even be in non-legacy mode by default,
> > > just as long as you can go back to the old behaviour when/if you run
> > > into a non-LFS application.
> > >
> >
> > Wouldn't a mount option be better?
>
> I suppose that might be OK if you know that the 32-bit legacy
> applications will only touch one or two servers, but that sounds like a
> niche thing.
>
> On the downside, forcing all those people who have portable 64-bit aware
> applications to upgrade their version of mount just in order to have
> stat64() work correctly seems unnecessarily complicated. I'd prefer not
> to have to do that unless someone comes up with a good reason why we
> must.
Confused. You don't need to modify mount(8) when adding a new mount option?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-03 23:41 What's slated for inclusion in 2.6.24-rc1 from the NFS client git tree Trond Myklebust
2007-10-03 23:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-04 6:52 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-04 14:00 ` [NFS] " Trond Myklebust
2007-10-04 16:43 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-04 18:42 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-04 19:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-10-04 19:41 ` Peter Staubach
2007-10-05 6:25 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-05 17:36 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-10-05 17:54 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-10-04 19:59 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-10-05 0:58 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-10-05 17:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-05 17:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-10-05 18:00 ` Jeff Layton
2007-10-08 8:36 ` Greg Banks
2007-10-05 18:12 ` Jeff Layton
2007-10-07 22:56 ` David Chinner
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