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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
	steved@redhat.com
Subject: Re: NFS4 mount problem
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:33:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8310.1113845589@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050418171659.GE13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Architecture-dependent blob passed to mount(2) (aka nfs4_mount_data).
> If you want it to be a blob, at least have a decency to use encoding
> that would not depend on alignment rules and word size.  Hell, you
> could use XDR - it's not that nfs would need something new to handle
> it.  Or, better yet, use a normal string.

Mount doesn't appear to permit a big enough blob though. It has a hard limit
of PAGE_SIZE.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-18 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-15 11:57 NFS4 mount problem David Howells
2005-04-15 12:21 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-04-15 19:51   ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-15 20:22     ` David S. Miller
2005-04-15 22:07       ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-17 13:55       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-18 17:07         ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-18 17:16           ` Al Viro
2005-04-18 17:33           ` David Howells [this message]
2005-04-18 17:43             ` Al Viro
2005-04-18 17:52             ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-18 10:36       ` David Howells
2005-04-18 18:37         ` David S. Miller
2005-04-17 19:33 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-18 17:17   ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-18 17:59     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-20 10:57       ` Andries Brouwer
2005-04-18 10:34 ` David Howells
2005-04-18 14:49   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-18 22:07     ` Bryan Henderson
2005-04-18 23:34       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-18 15:23   ` David Howells
2005-04-18 15:45     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-18 21:50   ` Bryan Henderson

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