From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753553AbYIRI66 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:58:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753501AbYIRI6r (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:58:47 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:42084 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753026AbYIRI6q (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:58:46 -0400 Message-ID: <48D217E7.80702@melbourne.sgi.com> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:57:11 +1000 From: Greg Banks Organization: File Serving Technologies ; Silicon Graphics Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Martin Knoblauch , linux-nfs list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter zijlstra Subject: Re: [RFC][Resend] Make NFS-Client readahead tunable References: <124712.40022.qm@web32602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080918014733.3c9c362e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080918014733.3c9c362e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > >>> No. mount(8) will pass unrecognised options straight down into the >>> filesystem driver. >>> >>> >> Has that always been the case, or is it a recent change? I have to support RHEL4 userland, which is not really new. >> > > It's been that way for ever and ever. It's how all these guys: > > y:/usr/src/25> grep Opt_ fs/*/super.c|wc > 781 2626 33703 > > get handled. > NFS was...special...for a long time. -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. Be like the squirrel. I don't speak for SGI.