Re: xfs module insert fails with "xfs: Unknown symbol exportfs_decode_fh (err 0)"

Eric Sandeen
2013-04-26T18:02:45Z

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 :)

> 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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