On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Martin Knoblauch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > No. mount(8) will pass unrecognised options straight down into the
> > filesystem driver.
> >
>
> Has that always been the case, or is it a recent change? I have to support RHEL4 userland, which is not really new.
It's been that way for ever and ever. It's how all these guys:
y:/usr/src/25> grep Opt_ fs/*/super.c|wc
781 2626 33703
get handled.
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Martin Knoblauch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>> No. mount(8) will pass unrecognised options straight down into the
>>> filesystem driver.
>>>
>>>
>> Has that always been the case, or is it a recent change? I have to support RHEL4 userland, which is not really new.
>>
>
> It's been that way for ever and ever. It's how all these guys:
>
> y:/usr/src/25> grep Opt_ fs/*/super.c|wc
> 781 2626 33703
>
> get handled.
>
NFS was...special...for a long time.
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