From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 5 13:55:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B316414C3C for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA79655; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:54:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199910052054.NAA79655@apollo.backplane.com> To: Martin Blapp Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs) References: <37F9FE5B.7D27F186@imp.ch> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Not many people are aware that our userland mount_nfs(8) and umount(8) :support the following NFS-URL-syntax: : :mount /some/path/to/directory@nfs-server /mntpoint : :This, however, seems to be BSD-specific. Neither Solaris, Linux, Irix :... : :I propose to remove the '@' feature because of the above reasons. It is : :much easier to fix our userland mount(8) and umount(8) commands to :handle the different situations properly as described in the RFC. : :Martin I think that's a good idea. I'd remove it from current but not stable. When sysads eventually upgrade from stable to current they'll have a lot to do anyway, it would not be an undue burden to anyone actually using this syntax (I can't imagine there would be very many) to change as long as mount_nfs and umount give the appropriate fatal error message. The message could then be removed following the first or second 4.x release. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message