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SubjectRe: knfs/alpha patches (cont.)

> Marc,
>
> I have no means of testing the patches under Intel linux. Most of the
> issues on Alpha were differences between kernel headers and glibc headers
> with regard to storage sizes. On alpha, the userland dev_t is an unsigned
> long (64-bits) while the kernel syscalls expected dev_t to be unsigned int
> (32-bits). There is a patch floating around at cmu.edu which claims to
> make linux-nfs functional on Intel glibc. It did not address many of the
> problems that mine did on Alpha, but you may wish to hunt it down and try
> it!
>
> Steve

Thanks again Steve,

Note that I tested it on m68k too with exactly the same syslog output

mountd[XXX]: getfh failed: Operation not permitted

I'll hunt further ...

-- Marc Duponcheel.
[work] mduponch@cisco.com
[home] marc@offline.be

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