The NFS "nosharecache" patch in F7 is broken

[Steve Dickson]

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 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?
thats is an idea that has been kicked around but it turns out it
becomes very messy very quickly...

steved.