Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 11/16] Solaris nfsacl workaround | From | Andreas Gruenbacher <> | Date | Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:16:57 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:56, Trond Myklebust wrote: > su den 27.02.2005 Klokka 16:22 (+0100) skreiv Andreas Gruenbacher: > > vanlig tekstdokument vedlegg (nfsacl-solaris-nfsacl-workaround.patch) > > If the nfs_acl program is available, Solaris clients expect both version > > 2 and version 3 to be available; RPC_PROG_MISMATCH leads to a mount > > failure. Fake RPC_PROG_UNAVAIL when asked for nfs_acl version 2. > > > > Trond has rejected this patch. I'm not sure how to deal with it in a > > truly clean way, so probably I won't care and still use this as a vendor > > patch. > > So I've talked to the Solaris implementors about this issue. They said > that the above behaviour on their clients was a bug that they've > corrected in Solaris 10.
Thanks for gathering this piece of information.
> Given that very few people are going to be using Solaris clients with > NFSv2 against a Linux server, and given that there is always the option > of compiling the server without NFSACL support for those few who need to > do this, I suggest we just drop this patch.
It's NFSv3 clients that exhibit the strange behavior; else I never would have run into this bug. For me it's okay to leave out this patch; we'll still carry it around in our vendor tree for a while though.
Cheers, -- Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH
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