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.