Re: nfs client problem in kernel 2.4.0

From: Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 11:10:58 EST


>>>>> " " == Mogens Kjaer <mk@crc.dk> writes:

> This turned out to be more difficult than I thought...

> I suspect glibc-2.2-12 being the reason, but I'm not quite sure
> yet:

> The problem is, that the 64-bit dirent's are converted to
> 32-bit dirent's and a sanity check is performed, if the inodes
> or offsets don't fit into 32 bits.

> The offset of the last entry is 4294967295 (no, not -1), this
> won't fit in a signed 32 bit number.

> Does this number come from the SGI or from the NFS stuff in the
> Linux kernel?

It comes from the SGI. The NFS client just considers it all a cookie,
and passes it on to glibc. We probably shouldn't do that, as indeed
the cookie is not guaranteed to be 32-bit signed, but it's what we
always did for 2.2.x.

Cheers,
  Trond
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