Re: NFS mountned directory and apache2 (2.5.47)

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Richard Bouska <[e-mail]> writes:

     > Hello In 2.45.47 and 2.5.46 (at least) did not try any other am
     > I not able to serve files bigger than 255 bytes by apache2 from
     > nfs mounted directory. The local files are served correctly.

     > The server is on 2.4.18. When I use the 2.4 also on client
     > everything works. When the content of the page is CGI generated
     > then the size is not limited like this.

     > Both client and server are x86 (athlon) kernel compiled with:
     > gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)

     > sendfile() bug ??

Looks like whoever it was that changed the 'sendfile' API forgot to
update NFS. Try the following patch.

Cheers,
  Trond

--- linux-2.5.47/fs/nfs/file.c.orig	2002-11-08 14:16:27.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.5.47/fs/nfs/file.c	2002-11-15 13:06:06.000000000 -0500
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO
 	.direct_IO = nfs_direct_IO,
 #endif
+	.sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
 };
 
 /*