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
next prev 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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