From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: XFS mailing list <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: xfs module insert fails with "xfs: Unknown symbol exportfs_decode_fh (err 0)"
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:29:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367000954.4098.16.camel@chandra-dt.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <517AC13D.9000802@sandeen.net>
On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 13:02 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 4/26/13 12:24 PM, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I tried to insert xfs module in my test machine it failed with
> >
> > xfs: Unknown symbol exportfs_decode_fh (err 0).
>
> so don't use insmod, use modprobe :)
>
yup. It is the problem. Config seems to be fine.
false alarm.
> > Found out that I did not have CONFIG_EXPORTFS enabled in my kernel
> > config.
>
> Oh, hum. But fs/xfs/Kconfig:
>
> config XFS_FS
> tristate "XFS filesystem support"
> depends on BLOCK
> select EXPORTFS
>
> it should be turned on automatically. That seems to be the problem,
> why wasn't it for your case?
>
> > All .*by_handle code in XFS is open coded. Wondering if they should be
> > under #ifdef CONFIG_EXPORTFS ?
>
> CONFIG_EXPORTFS is supposed to be on if xfs is selected, unless something
> changed recently.
>
> -Eric
>
> > I can create a patch, but wanted to find out if it is indeed needed :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chandra
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-26 17:24 xfs module insert fails with "xfs: Unknown symbol exportfs_decode_fh (err 0)" Chandra Seetharaman
2013-04-26 18:02 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-04-26 18:29 ` Chandra Seetharaman [this message]
2013-04-26 18:16 ` Ben Myers
2013-04-26 21:46 ` Dave Chinner
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