The NFS "nosharecache" patch in F7 is broken

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Tue Aug 21 16:22:00 UTC 2007


On 08/21/2007 12:14 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> 
> Dave Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:29:53AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>  > If people try mounting several exports from the same filesystem, it
>> fails
>>  > with confusing error messages if the mount options are different
>> for some
>>  > of the mount points. Adding "nosharecache" to the mount options
>> fixes that,
>>  > but people with working setups suddenly find they need this new
>> option to
>>  > use a setup that used to work without it. Should we just revert
>> that patch?
> Thats been the million dollar question lately... there has been quite a
> bit of complaints about this patch... but note the check does do some
> correct sanity checking so the changes it point would be a good
> thing to do....
> 
> But with that said, I would if making it a warning first, giving
> people time to clean up their setups and then making it an
> error later on...
> 

Can't it be made to automatically set the nosharecache flag if it's needed?




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