Ext3 users - Jun 2001 - Export knfsd/ext3 on doubly patched kernel(knfsd/reiserfs) OK?

Hi - if I have a doubly patched kernel (2.4.5)
 (1) Apply gkernel/CVS ext3 patches
 (2) Apply Neil Brown/Reiserfs team  knfsd and reiserfs patches

Will ext3 be exportable by knfsd (i.e. inherit automagically
the nfsd_operations thingies from ext2) or does it need further
patching?



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Chan Shih-Ping (Richard) <cshihpin@dso.org.sg>
DSO National Laboratories
20 Science Park Drive
Singapore 118230

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:56:27PM +0800, Richard Shih-Ping Chan
wrote:
> Hi - if I have a doubly patched kernel (2.4.5)
>  (1) Apply gkernel/CVS ext3 patches
>  (2) Apply Neil Brown/Reiserfs team  knfsd and reiserfs patches
> 
> Will ext3 be exportable by knfsd (i.e. inherit automagically
> the nfsd_operations thingies from ext2) or does it need further
> patching?
It probably won't work.  Reiserfs's knfsd patches need all other
filesystems to be patched afaik, and ext3 doesn't have that.  ext3 on
plain 2.4 should work with nfs fine.  I think the Reiserfs people are
planning a less invasive knfsd patch which works without modifying
other filesystems, but I don't know the status of that just yet.

Cheers,
 Stephen