Re: BUG REPORT: kernel nfs between 2.4.19-pre2 (server) and 2.2.21-pre3 (client)

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:33:39 +0000

trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no said:
> As for re-exporting: that can be done pretty easily too unless of
> course you actually expect it to be reliable. The tough cookie is to
> get it to survive server reboots.

The problem here is that we're using the anonymous device which the NFS
mount happens to have as sb->s_dev as the device ID in our exported file
handles. We don't have to do that; we could use something slightly more
useful, based on the root fh we got from the _real_ server, surely?

--
dwmw2




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