On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:44 PM, hiro<23h...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Well, IMHO it would be nice to have it named (or symlinked as) mount.9p
>> folks who mount as root could get the helper automatically. This
>> would be nice for the standard Linux admin who is mounting crap as
>> root anyways and trips over the DNS resolution error because all
>> they are used to is NFS which mount has always done DNS for.
>
> If they invest their time to find out about the mount.9p command,
> won't they rather easily understand the DNS issue?
>
Well, if someone installs the mount.9p package, then it "just works"
-- at least at the same level of "just works" as CIFS and the other
second-class distributed file systems for Linux. Its easier to tell
someone to install a package than step them through installing and
using a different command for mount than mount.
-eric
