Tom, Thanks so much for listening to us on this matter. I have always found NA folks to be willing to entertain changes when the user community speaks up. I can't say that is the way with other vendors but NA really does listen. Rgds, C-
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:10:14AM -0700, Haynes, Tom wrote:
This is the second time in the last year I've made a change based on a request from this list.
Anyway, the burt assigned to this request is 139141. It is on the NOW site.
I don't like the extra command line option to the vol command. If I wanted this feature turned off, I'd want it turned off once and I wouldn't want to have to flip a switch every time I had to do a command.
I've opted for a global option which will control the automatic exports for all edits except the upgrade from a prior release. (With the upgrade, we do copy the original to /etc/exports.pre.upgrade.)
Actually, the prior algorithm is along the lines:
read in /etc/exports write to /etc/exports.tmp cp /etc/exports.tmp /etc/exports
What I'll do is change it to:
read in /etc/exports write to /etc/exports.tmp if (automatic_exports) cp /etc/exports.tmp /etc/exports
This will allow you to look at /etc/exports.tmp and manually copy it over if it meets your needs.
I'll also work to see that the new option is put in the "Release Notes".
Well, I think that's about my personal best for a toasters posting stirring things up! :-)
Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QH, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.
-- Tom Haynes, ex-cfb thomas@netapp.com