From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Sign Extentions with Tru64 FSIDs. Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:05:08 -0500 Message-ID: <1173186308.6393.7.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <45EC7F0F.4090600@RedHat.com> <1173130678.6315.7.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <45EC8FD3.4010809@redhat.com> <1173132182.6315.27.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <45EC9837.1010504@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: "'nfs@lists.sourceforge.net'" , Steve Dickson To: Peter Staubach Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOZM8-0002gj-EE for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:05:28 -0800 Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HOZM9-0007Ee-8K for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:05:30 -0800 In-Reply-To: <45EC9837.1010504@redhat.com> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 17:22 -0500, Peter Staubach wrote: > Perhaps the right thing to do is to revert the NFSv2/NFSv3 support > completely and not have them worry about changing fsids? The common > practice is to use an automounting facility or static mounts to > construct namespaces for NFSv2/NFSv3 networks. It is really only > with the advent of NFSv4 that the fsids actually become interesting > and something that the client needs to be aware of. That is not quite true. It has been a problem on NFSv2/v3 ever since IRIX introduced the 'nohide' export option (which was later copied by the Linux server). There are only too many programs out there that are easily fooled by the combination of hard links and non-unique inode numbers. > Or we could just punt and document that READDIRPLUS must be disabled > on all Tru64 NFS servers if this problem is seen. That would also be an option. Cheers Trond ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs