Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

[Ian Kent]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:50 +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:37 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > But what about mounting with different protocol, tcp vs udp for example.
> > 
> > I was referring specifically to the R/O / R/W variants of the same mount.  Any
> > flag variation that varies the way the NFS client talks to the NFS server must
> > either result in a new superblock or be ignored.
> > 
> > David
> 
> We currently ignore remount requests that attempt to change the NFS
> mount parameters. This is not new behaviour, BTW: it has always been the
> case, and nobody has ever requested it.

Yes, I only mentioned it because I'm aware it.

I've not payed much attention to it because there haven't been any
complaints so far and it's been a long time.

Ian

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