Re: knfsd 980907 is released.
H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:55:13 -0700 (PDT)
>
> >>>David C Niemi said:
> >
> > A couple of things I'd like to see:
> >
> > - Mounting of same-file-system subdirectories of the exported
> > directory needs to work (e.g. if /opt is exported, mounting
> > /opt/foo should work as long as /opt/foo is in the same file
> > system). This is standard NFS practice and a major hole in
> > the knfsd implement to this point. G Allen Morris (cc'd) took
> > a cut at it, I'd hope you and Bill Hawes will take a look at it.
>
> It would be good to get a patch in soon. I think that either
> a path or a dentry must be passed by mountd in the getfh system
> call.
I tooke a look at your patch. Please use a different NFS system call
number. We should have NFSCTL_GETFH and NFSCTL_GETFH_NEW. I will make
sure my knfsd works with both new and old kernels.
H.J.
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