Re: knfsd problem in late 2.1

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Thu, 21 May 1998 08:43:37 -0400

ak@muc.de wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:16:07PM +0200, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > kdev_t != dev_t, this is the bug, printing out the two values in hex
> > would have made this obvious and it's the first thing I did...
> >
> > (gdb) p/x 33554436
> > $2 = 0x2000004
> > (gdb) p/x 2052
> > $3 = 0x804
>
> Yuck, should have checked that. Thanks. I guess the right fix is to
> just remove the device check then.

Perhaps it's a glibc problem? Usually when someone reports a kdev_t vs
dev_t problem, it's because of a glibc header difference.

I think there's a patch around to make the nfs tools work right with
glibc.

Regards,
Bill

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