Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 99 23:45:22 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Linux NFS client problems with SGI server |
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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
-- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2785859 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
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