On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 12:14 -0400, 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... > > steved.
It is important that people know about the consequences of using nosharecache: namely that they may see cache corruption when accessing the same file via different mountpoints. That is why I firmly believe it should _NOT_ be a default. Trond _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
