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Re: Some nfs testing help needed

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Some nfs testing help needed
From: Utz Lehmann <ulehmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 13:17:07 +0200
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <1020709612.13140.61.camel@stout.americas.sgi.com>; from sandeen@sgi.com on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:26:52PM -0500
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Hi Eric

I have compiled a today CVs kernel with this patch for my workstation. I
can test it with linux 2.2, 2.4, HP-UX 10.20, 11.0 and older IRIX 6.5
clients. For what errors should i look?

utz

Eric Sandeen [sandeen@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> Hi all - 
> 
> As has been apparent from previous posts, our users are often able to
> discover nfs-related bugs before we do, due to the wide variety of
> environments in which the testing can happen.
> 
> A change was made a while back to add the fh_to_dentry / dentry_to_fh
> superblock operations to XFS, which are used for knfsd.  The change was
> quickly #ifdef'd out again when problems cropped up.
> 
> Some changes have been made since then, and if some brave NFS users
> could do a bit of testing with this patch (which re-enables the
> methods), we'd greatly appreciate reports of success or failure.  
> 
> (Please test this against a fresh CVS checkout from today.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Eric
> 
> --- /linux/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_super.c_1.167     Mon May  6 13:09:29 2002
> +++ linux/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_super.c    Mon May  6 13:09:23 2002
> @@ -826,7 +826,7 @@
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> -#if 0
> +#if 1
>  STATIC int linvfs_dentry_to_fh(
>       struct dentry *dentry,
>       __u32 *data,
> @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@
>       statfs:                 linvfs_statfs,
>       remount_fs:             linvfs_remount,
>  
> -#if 0
> +#if 1
>       fh_to_dentry:           linvfs_fh_to_dentry,
>       dentry_to_fh:           linvfs_dentry_to_fh,
>  #endif
> 
> -- 
> Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.


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