From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 19 14:26:02 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA29788 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:26:02 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA29781 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:25:50 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03738; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:25:19 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA10892 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:25:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA10660 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:22:07 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504192122.XAA10660@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Why was the NFS mount option wsize removed? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:22:06 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: <9504191852.AA02575@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 19, 95 02:52:55 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 578 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > It seems to be not fully intentional. > > It is intentional. The format for options was changed for the worse > by 4.4, and we have spent a bit of effort recovering from that > mistake. The correct way to specify the old `wsize=' option is with > `-w='. Anyway, changing options in an incompatible way (not only to the predecessors, but also to the `rest of the world') is not a good idea. IMNSO. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)