[PATCH] NFS Client mounts hang when exported directory do not exist

[Steve Dickson]

Eric Paris wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 11:12 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> This patch fixes a regression that was introduced by the string based mounts. 
>>
>> nfs_mount() statically returns -EACCES for every error returned
>> by the remote mounted. This is incorrect because -EACCES is
>> an non-fatal error to the mount.nfs command. This error causes
>> mount.nfs to retry the mount even in the case when the exported
>> directory does not exist. 
>>
>> This patch maps the errors returned by the remote mountd into
>> valid errno values, exactly how it was done pre-string based 
>> mounts. By returning the correct errno enables mount.nfs 
>> to do the right thing.
> 
> Does this mean the EACCES can/will again become fatal in mount.nfs like
> it used to be?
EACCES is still a non-fatal error as it was... The problem is the 
kernel was should have been returning ENOENT, which is a fatal error,
instead of EACCES. 

steved.