Re: [RFC][Resend] Make NFS-Client readahead tunable

[Greg Banks]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Martin Knoblauch <knobi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
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I don't speak for SGI.

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