Re: knfsd rejects everyone on SparcLinux 2.1.89

Erwin J. van Eijk (eijk@huygens.org)
Wed, 08 Apr 1998 09:58:07 +0200

cc> After drilling into the sources of both the kernel NFSD part and its
cc> user-level support daemons (a first time experience to me), it has come to
cc> me that in fs/nfsd/export.c, in the function exp_export(), the kernel half
cc> was getting a device number for /snepa which is different from the
cc> device

Well, as far as I can tell, on Intel this is caused by libc using
uint64_t as a dev_t, and the kernel using short as dev_t. I created
some fixes in the nfs-0.4.22 stuff, and now it works quite well. Under
the provision that the client does not try to establish the
whereabouts from a server by sending a null packet to the
server. (Ultrix 4.3 does this unfortunately)

cc> I have no convenient access to a i386 PC I could recompile Linux on, to
cc> check whether this problem is specific or not. Has anyone succesfully used
cc> the knfsd on recent kernel, on any platform ?

I think this is not arch related....

cc> Software :
cc> S/Linux 2.1.89-VGER-CVS980313
cc> linux-nfs 0.4.22 from ftp.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/okir

What's your base distribution? Redhat?

Grtz
EJ

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