Re: [reiserfs-list] NFS and reiserfs

[Neil Brown]

On Tuesday February 6, [e-mail] wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Samuel Flory wrote:
> 
> > someone (you?) talking about v3 issues with SGI boxes under 2.4 on the
> > nfs list.  I didn't much pay much attention as it wasn't an issue I
> > could help with.
> 
> that might have been me...
> 
> the issues were related to how IRIX nfs client expects server to
> behave wrt to device files and other special files. First problemo
> was fixed, second one (FIFOs) is apparently undefined for NFS.

Just FYI, these should be completely fixed by 
  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/knfsd-2.2/2.2.19-pre8/patch-F-nfsirix
already submitted to Alan and
  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux/2.4.2-pre1/patch-D-nfsirix
not yet submitted to Linus.

NeilBrown