Re: request for patches: showing mount options
From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 17:28:15 EST
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 17:16 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > It would be nice to have all this stuff in 2.6.24, which doesn't leave
> > a lot of time.
>
> Yes, that would be nice, but there's a lot of stuff that needs to get
> done before this. NFS IPv6, for example, is a higher priority than
> refactoring to remove /etc/mtab -- the US government has a new
> requirement in 2008 for IPv6 support in any software that it purchases,
> and NFS may be a stumbling block for distributors if it doesn't have it.
>
> So I'd say "no way" for 2.6.24, but it's really Trond's call to make.
I never like to tell people what their priorities should be. If someone
is interested enough to do the work, then it will get done, however this
cannot make the top of my already-overloaded list of priorities for
2.6.24, and it would appear that Chuck is busy too.
Any other volunteers out there?
Cheers
Trond
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