Re: [PATCH] a.out don't exec over NFS

Jan Rekorajski (baggins@hunter.mimuw.edu.pl)
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 23:52:04 +0100


On Sun, 07 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > This little patch fixes a bug preventing a.out binaries to be executed
> > from NFS mounted directories. I know it also chnges default rsize and wsize,
> > but these two can be changed on mount time and blocksize connot.
> >
>
> Benchmark before and after. You really really do not want to make the entire
> kernel do stupidly small I/O on real file systems. Fix the rsize/wsize code
> to keep a per mount block size hint.
>

My patch reverts NFS client to 2.0.x behaviour. I can provide a patch
that changes only s_blocksize on NFS mounted filesystem.

And AFAIK it does nothing to the other filesystems.

Jan

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