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Date:      Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:22:06 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: Why was the NFS mount option wsize removed?
Message-ID:  <199504192122.XAA10660@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9504191852.AA02575@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 19, 95 02:52:55 pm

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As Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> > It seems to be not fully intentional.
> 
> It is intentional.  The format for options was changed for the worse
> by 4.4, and we have spent a bit of effort recovering from that
> mistake.  The correct way to specify the old `wsize=' option is with
> `-w='.

Anyway, changing options in an incompatible way (not only to the
predecessors, but also to the `rest of the world') is not a good idea.
IMNSO.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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