On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:19:15AM +0800, hank peng wrote: > 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) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ no_root_squash > > 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 It's in the FAQ entry christoph pointed you to: "However, exporting the root of the filesystem works" Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs