mountlate being too mount-happy

[Chris Rees]

On 22 January 2013 21:16, Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote
>   in <CADLo83_ACAtUvqZYmv4A9Os9rTtxxdLK8e6n6YSrYhYJbiRk-w at mail.gmail.com>:
>
> ut> [dragging it up again!]
> ut>
> ut> On 18 November 2012 14:28, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> ut> > On 18 November 2012 06:09, Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> ut> >> Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik at gmail.com> wrote
> ut> >> in <20121118002245.GB15055 at dft-labs.eu>:
> ut> >>
> ut> >> mj> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:43:25AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> ut> >> mj> > Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote
> ut> >> mj> > in <
> ut> CADLo839wqzAPenuQDOVpQ74yjCMkPQNceKpvs_N9XNwMLrkC1A at mail.gmail.com>:
> ut> >> mj> >
> ut> >> mj> > ut> On 2 November 2012 14:21, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
> ut> wrote:
> ut> >> mj> > ut> > On 2 November 2012 09:56, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com>
> ut> wrote:
> ut> >> mj> > ut> >> I'll take a look.
> ut> >> mj> > ut> >
> ut> >> mj> > ut> > untested:
> ut> >> mj> > ut>
> ut> >> mj> > ut> Based on Eitan's patch, I've tested this one, and documented
> ut> it in mount(8) too:
> ut> >> mj> > ut>
> ut> >> mj> > ut> http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/mountonlylate.diff
> ut> >> mj> > ut>
> ut> >> mj> > ut> Does anyone have any suggestions/objections/urge to approve it?
> ut> >> mj> >
> ut> >> mj> > Is the original problem due to backgrounding of NFS mount only? If
> ut> >> mj> > so, implementing prevention of duplicate invocation into mount(8)
> ut> >> mj> > would be more reasonable, I think.
> ut> >> mj> >
> ut> >> mj>
> ut> >> mj> We have 2 distinct scripts that try to mount same set of filesystems.
> ut> >> mj> I think this is the real bug here and proposed patches makes it go
> ut> away in
> ut> >> mj> an IMHO acceptable way.
> ut> >>
> ut> >> I just wanted to make sure if the case is limited to background NFS
> ut> >> mount or not.
> ut> >>
> ut> >> rc.d/mountlate just tries to mount the filesystems that are not
> ut> >> mounted yet at that time in addition to the "late" ones, not always
> ut> >> to mount the same set twice. If it is a bug, it is better to simply
> ut> >> fix -l to exclude not-yet-mounted ones without "late" keyword than
> ut> >> adding another option.
> ut> >
> ut> > I don't think it's a bug as such-- -l option is clearly labelled in
> ut> > the manpage (emphasis mine):
> ut> >
> ut> > When used in conjunction with the -a option, *also* mount those
> ut> > file systems which are marked as ``late''.
> ut> >
> ut> > I think that for POLA and to avoid changing behaviour of an option
> ut> > that's been there a long time we need the -L option.
> ut> >
> ut> > I disagree with Mateusz here-- split operations in rc makes two
> ut> > scripts necessary; mount and mountlate are two separate operations,
> ut> > done at different times.
> ut>
> ut> Hiroki-san, do you still believe that changing the behaviour of -l is the
> ut> correct way to go, rather than add a -L option for only late filesystems?
> ut> (mount -la currently mounts *all* filesystems, you suggested to change to
> ut> just late).
> ut>
> ut> I'd like to fix this, but I want to make sure you're happy with the
> ut> solution.
>
>  Sorry for being unresponsive.  Can you give me a couple of days to
>  double-check the behavior?

That'd be fantastic, thank you.

Chris