Re: [NFS] [BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 kernel BUG at fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c:945

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Mon Sep 10 2007 - 17:04:32 EST


On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:41 +0530, suzuki wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been trying to debug this issue from my side and could find the
> following.
>
> The pathconf() request gets a reply with :
>
> pathinfo.max_namelen = (unsiged int) -1
> pathinfo.max_link = 255
>
> Is this really an expected answer from a server for a proper connection
> ( for mount requests on an exported dir) ? Is there something that needs
> to be fixed at server side ?

I assume that this is with my patch applied? Yes: as long as the kernel
sets NAME_MAX to 255, then the above is expected behaviour.

Trond

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