The NFS "nosharecache" patch in F7 is broken

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Wed Aug 22 15:24:22 UTC 2007


On 08/22/2007 11:18 AM, 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?
> Just curious... What are the differences in the mounts options that
> is causing this new check to pop, which in turn is failing the mount?

In at least one case it is read-only vs. read-write. User mounts
something from the server read-only, then mounts selected exports
from the same filesystem read-write on top of that.




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