1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index 73c65f19e549..18d3c8487835 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -1302,9 +1302,29 @@ xfs_fs_remount(
                         mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER;
                         break;
                 default:
+                        /*
+                         * Logically we would return an error here to prevent
+                         * users from believing they might have changed
+                         * mount options using remount which can't be changed.
+                         *
+                         * But unfortunately mount(8) adds all options from
+                         * mtab and fstab to the mount arguments in some cases
+                         * so we can't blindly reject options, but have to
+                         * check for each specified option if it actually
+                         * differs from the currently set option and only
+                         * reject it if that's the case.
+                         *
+                         * Until that is implemented we return success for
+                         * every remount request, and silently ignore all
+                         * options that we can't actually change.
+                         */
+#if 0
                         printk(KERN_INFO
         "XFS: mount option \"%s\" not supported for remount\n", p);
                         return -EINVAL;
+#else
+                        return 0;
+#endif
                 }
         }