Re: [PATCH] a.out don't exec over NFS

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:04:32 +0000 (GMT)

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> This little patch fixes a bug preventing a.out binaries to be executed
> from NFS mounted directories. I know it also chnges default rsize and wsize,
> but these two can be changed on mount time and blocksize connot.
>
> I hope this will go in 2.2.3 :)

Benchmark before and after. You really really do not want to make the entire
kernel do stupidly small I/O on real file systems. Fix the rsize/wsize code
to keep a per mount block size hint.

Alan

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