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Bug#717547: nfs-common: simple remount returns an error



On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 14:00 +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote:
> Ben Hutchings:
> > Surely this is just a bug in the kernel NFS client - it is
> > inconsistently deciding in one place that it has the option sec=3Dsys amd
> > in another that it doesn't have that option.
> 
> Maybe you are right.
> Before judging this is a bug in NFS, it might be better to discuss the
> nfs-util developers (or nfs-common package maintainers)

nfs-utils maintainers include the kernel team... partly because so many
bugs reported against it are really kernel bugs. :-)

> because they
> might say "mount.nfs relies upon /etc/mtab as a regular file.
[...]

That would not be acceptable in Debian any more, since it is now a
symlink by default.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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