On 10/18/2012 2:07 PM, [email protected] wrote:
This patch adds a warning when using NFS mounting syntax (server:/share),
instead of the usual UNC syntax (//server/share || \\server\share), that
support for NFS style mounts will be removed in version 6.0 of the mount.cifs
utility.
The reasoning for this is simple. Support for NFS syntax is undocumented and increases
maintenance overhead. This came up recently on the cifs-utils list when discussing how
to handle mounting a share NFS style using an IPv6 address. Since the ':' character is
valid in a POSIX file path or share name it is an ambiguous delimiter. Consider the
following valid server share : "dead:beef::1:iSCSIExportedByIQN:storage".
Instead of adding complicated code to the parser to support an undocumented
feature, we're optin
g to remove the feature in the mount utility in version 6.0 if there is no
objection.
Jeff, it's been a few days and no one has objected (or really said
anything). Can we merge this patch?
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