[Pvfs2-users] Weird problem : mount -t pvfs2 doesn't accept any option

[Phil Carns]

Hi Emmanuel,

There have been some adjustments in trunk since 2.7.1 that are related 
to the mount option parsing.  Could you try the attached patch and see 
if that helps?

thanks,
-Phil

Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Using pvfs 2.7.1 and Linux 2.6.24.7 (tried x86 and x86_64, same thing),
> 
> "mount -t pvfs2" doesn't accept any option and it's quite annoying
> because that means automatic mounting thru either /etc/fstab
> or /etc/pvfs2tab fails. Here's a sample :
> 
> # cat /etc/pvfs2tab
> tcp://storiq-cluster1:3334/pvfs2-fs /mnt/pvfs2 pvfs2 rw 0 0
> 
> Let's mount :
> # /etc/init.d/mountpvfs2.sh
> 
> mounting PVFS2 filesystems:mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> superblock on tcp://storiq-cluster1:3334/pvfs2-fs,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
>  Failed
> Let's see dmesg  output :
> 
> Error: mount option [] is not supported.
> pvfs2_get_sb: mount request failed with -22
> Ensure that all pvfs2-servers have the same FS configuration files
> Look at pvfs2-client-core log file (typically /tmp/pvfs2-client.log)
> for more details
> 
> Strange, it reports that there is no option, though there's one (rw).
> So let's check pvfs2-client.log
> 
> # tail /var/log/pvfs2-client.log 
> [E 12:36:55.695817] Configuration server MUST be of the form
> protocol://address/fs_name
> [E 12:36:55.695870] Failed to umount via host 
> 
> 
> Let's try nonsense as option :
> 
> # mount -t pvfs2 -o zaegzregh*$
> tcp://storiq-cluster1:3334/pvfs2-fs /mnt/pvfs2
> 
> dmesg says :
> Error: mount option [zaegzregh*$] is not supported.
> pvfs2_get_sb: mount request failed with -22
> Ensure that all pvfs2-servers have the same FS configuration files
> Look at pvfs2-client-core log file (typically /tmp/pvfs2-client.log)
> for more details
> 
> So it looks like somehow wrong options are rejected properly, but valid
> options (such as rw,ro,defaults, etc) simply don't go thru. Any idea? 
> 

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