Re: XFS, NFS and inode64 on 2.6.27

Christoph Hellwig
2009-11-22T12:30:49Z

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:17:57PM +0100, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> > filehandles which have to encode the inode number of the export
> > root. Your best option is to simplify switch to exporting a whole
> > filesystem,
>
> That's how it worked until NFSv3. I tried that also, didn't work either.
> The whole thing worked before I reinstalled it (this server now runs
> virtualized within XENserver), and maybe that made some subdirs have
> inodes > 32bit.
>
> > alternatively you can try making sure NFSD uses the
> > 16byte wide UUID style export.
>
> How'd I do that?

I'm not sure, haven't deal with nfs utils a lot recently. I'd suggest
you brings this up on linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org.