From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Subject: Text-based mount interface breaking non-UDP mounts Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:49:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20080423214929.GA24387@uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no ([129.241.93.19]:48101 "EHLO cassarossa.samfundet.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754554AbYDWVtg (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:49:36 -0400 Received: from trofast.ipv6.sesse.net ([2001:700:300:1803:20e:cff:fe36:a766] helo=trofast.sesse.net) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JomqL-00018H-K9 for linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:49:34 +0200 Received: from root by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JomqH-0006Lf-MG for linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:49:29 +0200 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, I've gotten a few bug reports lately that if UDP is blocked at the server, NFS mounts (even with -o tcp) fail. git bisect shows that the culprit is the change "Get rid of the "-i" option for mount.nfs[4] and always use the text-based mount(2) system call for kernel version 2.6.23 and later." -- in other words, the bug is specific to the text interface. Does anyone know why this would be the case? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/