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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [POT] Which journalised filesystem ?  (fwd)
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:25:36PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:42:10PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> 
> > > Should be fine with ext3 and XFS.  It's not a journaling problem as
> > > much as NFS assuming a particular property of the filesystem.
> 
> > Err, I meant it is stable from all reports for recent kernels:-/.... excuse me.
> 
> Yes, and it's also worth noting that this same NFS assumption will
> break exports of _all_ filesystems which don't have simple static
> inum/filehandle capabilities.  Reiserfs should work just fine now but
> the same NFS problem is still present if you do other things such as
> trying to re-export a SMB mount as NFS. 
> 

Yes, this issue has been reported many times on the samba mailing lists...

Are there any network filesystems on linux that have the "static
inum/filehandle capabilities"?
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