From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: assigning filesystem ID's Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:14:40 +1000 (EST) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <15532.64128.511112.975886@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: To: David Dougall In-Reply-To: message from David Dougall on Thursday April 4 Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Thursday April 4, davidd@et.byu.edu wrote: > I heard recently that a feature had been added to the 2.5 kernel that > allowed the fsid to be assigned in the exports file. Has this been > back-ported to the 2.4.x series? Or is it just a part of the nfs-utils? > I have had problems in the past with failover nfs servers that mount the > partition, but it may be a different device number in /dev and therefore, > the clients return stale mount errors. Will the fsid setting in the > exports file solve this problem? > Please advise. It is in 2.5 and 2.4.19-pre4-ac4 and later (I think). It probably wont be in 2.4.19 but might be in 2.4.20. You need to get nfs-utils from the CVS on sourceforge. There hasn't been a release made since that functionality was added. It should fix your problem with different /dev numbers. NeilBrown _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs