Re: nfs stale filehandle issues with 2.6.10-rc1 in-kernel server

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:10:11PM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> What I would like was for exportfs to either say "No! Fix your file
> stupid" or "Good! This setup will work reliably for all eternity then".
> 
> Is anyone considering fixing this?   And; is the problem mainly in
> exportfs, in the kernel, or both?  (relevant for me to know if I want to
> go fix it myself)

With recent kernels the kernel generally only queries userland for
export information on demand.  So if you want an error returned at
exportfs time, you need to modify exportfs.--b.
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