Re: Linux 2.2.16pre5 - NFS?!

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 05:02:07 EST


On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:51:31AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > They have nothing to do with NFS. So its even stranger
> >
> > Newer knfsd uses the netlink device (not the socket :-()_to ask mountd again
> > after reboots for new requests.
>
> The netlink device is obsolete. Thats silly to say the least

Yes, The user land mountd needs to be fixed.

> > Normally that should be only supported by the knfsd patches various
> > distributions ship though. But maybe the newer user land knfsd breaks
> > without netlink ?
>
> The more I hear the more it sounds that way

When you include the new NFS code into 2.2.16 the user land compatibility
issues will open a much bigger can of worms :-( Currently you seem to
get strange failures when you run new kernel code with old user land.

-Andi

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