xfs module insert fails with "xfs: Unknown symbol exportfs_decode_fh (err 0)"
Ben Myers
bpm at sgi.com
Fri Apr 26 13:16:24 CDT 2013
Hey Chandra,
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:24:09PM -0500, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> When I tried to insert xfs module in my test machine it failed with
>
> xfs: Unknown symbol exportfs_decode_fh (err 0).
>
> Found out that I did not have CONFIG_EXPORTFS enabled in my kernel
> config.
Most people are running with NFS enabled in their kernel config, I think.
> All .*by_handle code in XFS is open coded. Wondering if they should be
> under #ifdef CONFIG_EXPORTFS ?
>
> I can create a patch, but wanted to find out if it is indeed needed :)
foo_by_handle
xfs_handlereq_to_dentry
xfs_handle_to_dentry
exportfs_decode_fh
xfsdump does open by handle, so making that conditional on CONFIG_EXPORTFS will
break things. I think would be better to just make CONFIG_XFS depend upon
CONFIG_EXPORTFS in fs/xfs/Kconfig. Looks like we'll have the same problem with
libcrc32c.
Regards,
Ben
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