Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:09:25 -0500 | From | Kyle Rose <> | Subject | Re: READDIRPLUS max mount option |
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> The binary mount format is frozen forever, so the changes to nfs_mount.h > and nfs4_mount.h are definitely NACKed. > Ah. :-) So is there no way to add mount options, or is there a different mechanism today? > Otherwise, it would be nice to know why this absolutely has to be made a > mount option rather than just having a system-wide option (either a > module/boot parameter or a sysctl) to control the behaviour of all > mounts. > I mount multiple remote file systems. Only one of them I own, so I'm willing to potentially hammer it with huge READDIRPLUS requests, while the others probably deserve more benign behavior. ;-)
In general, I think having system-wide defaults somewhere in proc is helpful---and certainly superior to a constant in the source---but there should really be mount-specific overrides wherever the system-wide default might not be globally appropriate.
Kyle
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