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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: hank peng <pengxihan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: stale NFS file handle problem on XFS inode64
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:15:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111122221515.GA29540@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJNJY8Ty+bQpzGL9wq7Qv3ozcKUPwmTyYUeb2wQqZ326K4JeWw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:19:15AM +0800, hank peng wrote:
> > Do you export the root directory of the XFS filesystem, or a
> > subdirectory in it? ??If it's the former it should work in theory,
> > althrough I'm not sure how well 64-bit inode numbers work with a client
> > that old, if it's the latter it needs a few tweaks to work, see
> >
> The following is what I did:
> 1. mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb   (whole disk)
> 2. create a mount point in my root filesystem:
> mkdir /mnt/mymount
> 3. monut xfs with inode64
> mount /dev/sdb /mnt/mymount -o inode64
> 4. export it in NFS /etc/exports
> /mnt/mymount   *(rw, no_root,squash, sync)
> 
> so, is there any problem here?

That should work fine, and I've tried it a lot of times.  Do you see
the same issue when mounting the fs on the server (not recommended for
production use, just for testing!) and accessing it from the 2.6.35
kernel nfs client?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-22 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-21 13:00 stale NFS file handle problem on XFS inode64 hank peng
2011-11-21 14:01 ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-11-21 15:02   ` hank peng
2011-11-21 15:21     ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-11-21 15:28       ` hank peng
2011-11-21 15:43         ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-11-22  7:14           ` hank peng
2011-11-21 17:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-22  0:19   ` hank peng
2011-11-22  1:46     ` Dave Chinner
2011-11-22  3:22       ` hank peng
2011-11-22 20:35         ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-11-22 22:16           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-22 22:15     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-11-23  1:19       ` hank peng
2011-11-28 11:09         ` Christoph Hellwig

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