From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow default options in /etc/exports
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:35:23 +1100
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To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>
In-Reply-To: message from Steinar H. Gunderson on Tuesday December 26
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On Tuesday December 26, sesse@debian.org wrote:
> [Cc-on-reply, please]

Always.... doesn't everybody?

> 
> Merry Christmas, to those of you who celebrate that. :-) I found some time to
> write a patch for a two-year-old feature request which was slowly getting
> more and more annoying; hope it can go into upstream, even though it won't
> reach our upcoming Debian release.

Yes, I like it.  I've applied it.

I would like to have system-wide defaults too (as you mention).  Any
suggestions on syntax?  Having

-sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check

would be syntactically consistent (which is good) but is kind-a ugly.

Thanks,

NeilBrown


> 
> Patch: Allow default options in /etc/exports
> 
>   Implement default options in /etc/exports, to fix a long-standing wishlist
>   bug in Debian. (The user claims the syntax matches that of OpenBSD.) This
>   makes it possible to write "/srv/www -sync,no_subtree_check host1 host2 host3"
>   instead of having to write (sync,no_subtree_check) over and over and over
>   again, driving the administrator slowly mad. Such option lines can be
>   placed anywhere on the line, and affects anything after them (I do not
>   know if OpenBSD allows this). The patch is slightly convoluted in order to
>   avoid triggering spurious warnings; for instance, we want
>   "/srv/www -sync host1" to trigger a warning, but not "/srv/www
>   -sync,no_subtree_check host1" or "/srv/www -sync host1(no_subtree_check)".
> 
>   There was also a suggestion for a truly global (ie. per-file) option list,
>   but this seemed like the safest bet, given that it matches that of other
>   implementations.
> 
>   Also, the man page is updated with information on the new possibilities,
>   and an example.
> 
>   Signed-off-by: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org>

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