From: Chuck Lever Subject: Re: The text-based mount interface doesn't support -s (--sloppy) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:30:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080425081114.GA5148@uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Return-path: Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:21407 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751869AbYDYObm (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:31:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080425081114.GA5148-6Z/AllhyZU4@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Apr 25, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Hi, > > Another user-reported regression. -s used to work, but since 1.1.2 > it does > not, probably due to the text-based interface somehow: > > fugl:~> sudo mount.nfs 10.0.0.10:/store /store -s -o rw,asdfasdf > mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified It's not exactly clear what the "sloppy" option is supposed to allow. We are trying to figure out right now precisely how this should work. But before complaining too loudly about text-based mounts, please remember that there was no specification for the mount.nfs command and mount system call interface except for a 15 year old man page. We had to do something to move forward with IPv6 and RDMA transports; the legacy binary-only interface was simply inadequate. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com