This is prompted by two issues: Neil Brown on the NFS list asking for file systems that users want to export via NFS and the problems that the other journaling filesystem reiserfs has with knfsd. As far as I understand reiserfs does not work with knfsd so a patch is needed for the fs driver to provide a callback to knfsd to allow the fs driver to do some clever tricks with inodes. Neil's patch also modifies ext2 so that it provides this callback thingy (<---this is my very limited understanding of the situation). Since we hope that ext3 will be available for 2.4 in the future (:-)) and of course having the desire to export it I was just wondering whether ext3 has all the "magic" necessary to play nicely with knfsd. Or does the fact that ext3 depends on the ext2 code mean that it will automagically do the right thing by knfsd? Cheers and thanks for any enlightenment. -- Chan Shih-Ping (Richard) <cshihpin@dso.org.sg> DSO National Laboratories 20 Science Park Drive Singapore 118230
Hi, On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:16:37PM +0800, Richard Shih-Ping Chan wrote:> > the "magic" necessary to play nicely with knfsd. Or does > the fact that ext3 depends on the ext2 code mean that > it will automagically do the right thing by knfsd?It should, yes. Certainly, I don't know of any problems with ext3+NFS on 2.2. If there are any patches needed for it on 2.4, pass them my way and I will include them (provided they work both with and without a patched knfsd). Just give me the ext2 patches, and I'll make sure they are in the ext3 codebase too. Cheers, Stephen