From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267293AbUHDHBE (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 03:01:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267287AbUHDHBE (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 03:01:04 -0400 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]:20453 "EHLO acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267293AbUHDHBB (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 03:01:01 -0400 Message-ID: <411089A8.8070104@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:00:56 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Miquel van Smoorenburg Subject: Re: NFS-mounted, read-only /dev unusable in 2.6 References: <410F481C.9090408@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <64bf.410f9d6f.62af@altium.nl> <41108380.6080809@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <20040804064716.GA31600@traveler.cistron.net> In-Reply-To: <20040804064716.GA31600@traveler.cistron.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Assuming you have a way to reproduce this, to the NFS client > maintainer - see the file MAINTAINERS in the kernel source. Thanks! I will do so. > > But I just tried to reproduce this on 2.6.7-rc2 (it's what my > workstation happens to be running) and I can't. I can mount an > nfs-exported /dev from both 2.4 and 2.6 servers read-only and > I can open devices on that read-only mount just fine. It happens only when the server exports the fs read-only. When it exports the fs rw and you mount it ro on the client, it works. But with exporting ro, it fails. Before I report this, I guess I should try 2.6.8-rc3 and see if it works there. Thanks! cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049