Re: Some nfs testing help needed

[Utz Lehmann <ulehmann@de.tecosim.com>]

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@sgi.com] 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@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.