From: Maxim Levitsky Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git4 NFS crossmnt regression Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:05:30 +0200 Message-ID: <200712101705.30428.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> References: <200712101619.12522.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <20071210143609.GF2138@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: Neil Brown , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Andrew Morton , Trond Myklebust , gnome42@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , "Denis V. Lunev" , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:11298 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753826AbXLJPGA (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:06:00 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so1542990ugc for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:05:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20071210143609.GF2138@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Monday 10 December 2007 16:36:09 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 04:19:12PM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > ... > > > It is best not to use nohide - we should probably mark it as > > > 'legacy'. > > > > > > Simply export the top level mountpoint as 'crossmnt' and everything > > > below there will be exported. > > > > > > > Where should I put those options in root file-system export or in submount export? > > > > > > crossmnt goes at the top. nohide goes in the submount. Both have > > > the same general effect though with subtle differences. > > > You don't need both (though that doesn't hurt). > > > Just use crossmnt at the top, Then you don't need to mention the > > > lower level filesystems at all. > > > > > > > > > ... > > > > (I decided to switch to NFS4 only due to the lack of ability to see underlying mounts) > > > > > > > > > > All of this should work fine with v3. Once you have the right patch > > > for the crossmnt bug applied, if you have further problems post them > > > to linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TaiAVqoAR/hOA@public.gmane.org > > > > > > NeilBrown > > > > > > > Big thanks, > > > > Still NFS server just don't want to accept the connection > > I noticed that if I first mount with > > -tnfs, unmount, and then mount with -tnfs4, it works > > OK, in that case, that's definitely the bug Eric sent out the patch for; > you may want to try applying his patch. You mean "[PATCH 2.6.24-rc4] proc: Remove/Fix proc generic d_revalidate" ? I did apply it (on both kernel and server), and it doesn't help. Best regards, Maxim Levitsky PS: I am unfamiliar with nfs/nfs4, so this could be just a configuration/compilation issue. > > --b. >