Re: Linux NFS client problems with SGI server
Erik Mouw (J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl)
Fri, 16 Jul 99 23:45:22 +0200
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 17:49:14 +0100, Peter Benie wrote:
> Erik Mouw writes ("Re: Linux NFS client problems with SGI server"):
>> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:59:21 +0100 (GMT), Riley Williams wrote:
>> > Erik Mouw writes:
>> > > The exports file on the Origin (server1) looks like:
>> >
>> > > /usr/it -access=clients:friends
>> > > /usr/it/images -access=clients:friends,nohide
>> > > /home -access=clients:friends
>
>> The strange thing is that "ls /usr/it/packages" doesn't go wrong. Maybe
>> the "nohide" option in the server's exports file confuses Linux?
>
> This is precisely the problem. Think for a while about what nohide
> does, and how fattr.fileid interacts with inode numbers. nohide is
> broken for exactly the same reason as unfsd is when used to export
> multiple filesystems with one NFS export.
So can you explain why it actually *does* work on IRIX and SunOS/Solaris
clients? If they made a workaround, why can't we implement a similar one
in Linux?
Erik
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