2011/11/22 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:00:57PM +0800, hank peng wrote: >> Hi: >> I have a 4TB XFS filesystem mounted with "inode64" option, and I >> exported it using NFS v3, on NFS client, I entered a subdirectory and >> got "stale NFS file handle" error. >> ls -il showed that its inode number exceed 32 bit limit. >> NFS server: kernel version is 2.6.35.6 >> NFS client: kernel version is 2.6.18 > > 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? > http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_NFS-exporting_subdirectories_of_inode64-mounted_filesystem_work.3F > > for details. > -- The simplest is not all best but the best is surely the simplest! _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
