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Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] NFS: trace points added to mounting path


J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> On the mount case specifically: How far are we from the idea of a mount
> program that can identify most problems itself?  I know its error
> reporting has gotten better....
> 
> I suppose the main feedback mount gets right now is an error code from
> the mount system call, and that may be too narrow an interface to cover
> most problems.  Is there some way we can give mount a real interface it
> can use to find out this stuff instead of just dumping more strings into
> the logs?
Interesting.... Store something like a reason code (similar to what they have
in he Kerberos) in somewhere in the proc file system? 

Its seems to me this is a common problem among network file systems... 

steved.


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