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SubjectRe: NFS/ReiserFS problems 2.5.64-mbj1
Hello!

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:57:42AM +0100, Thomas Schlichter wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2003 18:07, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > sb->s_export_op->find_exported_dentry is NULL
> > in reiserfs_decode_fh, well. In fact we never set this field at all.
> > What is supposed to be there, anyway?
> > I guess following patch should fix the problem.
> Yes, it did fix the problem, but now I was not allowed anymore to compile NFS
> as a module as I need reiserfs to be in the kernel... :-(

Well, in fact this not real fix as I see it, it is just a cover for different bug somewhere else.

> > In fact I guess somebody should put find_exported_dentry() declaration to
> > include/linux/fs.h or something like that.
> > Also absolutely the same problem must exist if you try to export fat
> filesystem.
> That is true, too. I saw the Oops with a VFAT partition, too
> I just wonder why the code in fs/nfsd/export.c lines 684-687 does not work.

Well, I run the thing in the debugger with current bk snapshot and everything worked.

> This code should set the find_exported_dentry field correctly. But I do not
> know when this function (exp_export()) is called...

it is called when you mount remote fs, as my debugging session shows.

So I guess problem was already fixed somewhere else.

Bye,
Oleg
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