Re: [PATCH take 2] UBIFS - new flash file system

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon May 19 2008 - 08:36:41 EST


Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Could you please elaborate some more why UBIFS won't ever support nfs export?
> Does NFS export need correct readdir restarts?

Yes, because NFS is stateless. The seek offset has to be valid even over
a reboot.

If you don't handle it you should probably better forbid nfs export
completely to avoid subtle problems.

-Andi

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