On Tuesday February 6, hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:51:52AM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Who cares? There is no way to export a partial directory, and in any > > case the subtree_check crap is borken beyond repair (see cross-directory > > renames which lead to actual changes to the filehandle - broken, broken, > > broken!!!!). > > It's getting a little oftopic for this thread, but is there a chance we > could just kill that crap after a resonable deprecation period? Probably. A couple of years? nfs-utils 1.1.0 is due to stop subtree_check from being the default. After that is released, the next kernel can start printing warnings that it might stop working in a couple of years. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html