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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: NFS4 mount problem
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:33:09 +0100
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To: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
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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