Re: NFS and partitioned md

[Martin Filip <bugtraq@smoula.net>]

Hi,

Neil Brown píše v Čt 29. 06. 2006 v 13:45 +1000:
> Exactly.  4105 > 256.  Such devices need a different format filehandle
> which didn't work until very recently due to a bug (obviously no-one
> tried it until recently).
> 
> The patch below fixes the kernel so that this will work.

I'm affraid the problem will be yet somewhere else. I've tried this
patch and the result is totaly same :(


> -----------------------------
> Fixing missing 'expkey' support for fsid type 3
> 
> From: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com>
> 
> Type '3' is used for the fsid in filehandles when the device number
> of the device holding the filesystem has more than 8 bits in either
> major or minor.
> Unfortunately expkey_parse doesn't recognise type 3.  Fix this.
> 
> (Slighty modified from Frank's original)
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
> 
> ### Diffstat output
>  ./fs/nfsd/export.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff .prev/fs/nfsd/export.c ./fs/nfsd/export.c
> --- .prev/fs/nfsd/export.c	2006-06-29 11:07:21.000000000 +1000
> +++ ./fs/nfsd/export.c	2006-06-27 18:27:49.000000000 +1000
> @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static int expkey_parse(struct cache_det
>  	if (*ep)
>  		goto out;
>  	dprintk("found fsidtype %d\n", fsidtype);
> -	if (fsidtype > 2)
> +	if (key_len(fsidtype)==0) /* invalid type */
>  		goto out;
>  	if ((len=qword_get(&mesg, buf, PAGE_SIZE)) <= 0)
>  		goto out;
> -

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