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

[Steve Dickson]

Eric Paris wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 12:10 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>> 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... 
I guess I didn't look back far enough...

> 
> "non-fatal error as it was"?  Huh?  Back in the days of binary mount
> data it was fatal.  Try this on a new and old system.
Yes, I see...

> That may well have been your problem, but it doesn't change the fact the
> EACCES has been a fatal error in mount.nfs until just recently.  Why was
> it changed?  When is EACCES not fatal?
It appears the change came in with the text-based mount.nfs changes

commit 4ce9ddfb03de06e90fb4cf0eb5767cb0e3a98905
Author: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 10 15:06:39 2007 -0400

    text-based mount.nfs: sort between permanent and temporary errors

and I'm not sure why EACCES was deemed a non fatal error, but I'm
beginning to agree with you... EACCES probably should be fatal...
But thats something easily fixed in nfs-utils...

steved.