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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: NFS4 crack
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:36:15 -0400
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On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:21:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I've recently turned on NFS4 server support accidentally, just to get
> error messages like:
> 
> "NFSD: recovery directory /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery doesn't exist"
> 
> To my horror I found out that this comes from kernel code, which messes
> with a hardcoded directory, completelyu ingoring any namespace or other
> uses issues.

As long as all nfsd threads are in the same namespace, I don't see any
namespace issues.  What am I missing?

> The fs handling in fs/nfs/nfs4recovery.c is rather broken in addition.

For example?

--b.