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Re: Mandrake/SuSE NFS update

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Mandrake/SuSE NFS update
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:26:30 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> of "Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:02 CDT." <3AFAB076.5AE3C60C@xxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi all - 
> 
> Regarding the "invalid argument" problem on Mandrake and SuSE boxes, I
> think I've found the problem.
> 
> Mandrake applies a patch from Neil Brown that adds an "nfsd_operations"
> interface between knfsd and each filesystem.  I can't find a kernel
> source RPM for SuSE 7.1, but I assume that it's the same issue.
> 
> If this interface doesn't exist for a filesystem (and at this point, it
> does not for XFS), this patched version of nfs deems the filesystem
> "invalid" and will not export it.
> 
> I think it's pretty quick fix, I'll be looking into it today.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> -- 
> Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.

I think someone posted a patch for XFS and this in the last week or so. The 
Neil Brown patch was for reiserfs NFS support.

Steve




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