RE: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

[Hua Zhong]

> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> > No. Solaris defaults to breaking cache consistency.
> 
> If so, and since that's obviously what people _expect_ to happen, why
> not make that the default, with the "consistent" behaviour being the 
> one that needs an explicit option.
> 
> Just out of curiosity - Hua, is this NFSv2? Especially there, cache
> "consistency" is largely a joke anyway, so defaulting to some annoying
> careful mode is doubly ridiculous.

It's v3 as can be seen from the autofs maps I posted.

These directories are used mostly as read-only and get pulled in via our
build system. We do not actually write to them often, if at all. I don't
think this setup is uncommon, and I am worried that once people start using
the latest kernel their systems will mysteriously break.

> 		Linus

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