Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760506AbXJERbo (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:31:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754141AbXJERbg (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:31:36 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:57518 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756378AbXJERbf (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:31:35 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Pierre Ossman , Peter Staubach , nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, Andrew Morton , 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... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:00:50 EDT." <1191506450.6685.17.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1191454876.6726.32.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20071004085206.0a8e37b5@poseidon.drzeus.cx> <1191506450.6685.17.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1191605410_2884P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:30:10 -0400 Message-ID: <30494.1191605410@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1428 Lines: 38 --==_Exmh_1191605410_2884P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:00:50 EDT, Trond Myklebust said: > How about a boot/module parameter to turn it on or off? > > I don't see any point in having a sysctl for something like this: either > you have legacy applications or you don't. It is not something that you > switch off as you go off to lunch. How does Joe Sysadmin tell if he has an affected legacy app or not? (The obvious "try it and see what breaks" is a non-starter for many places, because you too easily end up in a loop of "enable it, find 4-5 show stoppers, turn it off, fix them, lather rinse repease". Been there, done that, got the tshirt - a project I got dragged into involves a large storage array that appears to insist on exporting 64-bit stuff, and a large farm of clients that are very 64-bit unclean....) --==_Exmh_1191605410_2884P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHBnSicC3lWbTT17ARAguhAJ4yFFwmHh6NzutHLK6SsMd4NATjhACeJysn kycLaBtXZeeZfLAErtMYu1E= =VK65 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1191605410_2884P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/