From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 24 12:16:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB70F37B6A0 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:16:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0OKUTI00828; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:30:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200101242030.f0OKUTI00828@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Guy Harris Cc: Matthias Andree , Linux NFS mailing list , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: [NFS] Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:42:16 PST." <20010124104216.F344@quadrajet.flashcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:30:29 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At least from looking at the Linux 2.2.18 code, if you get EROFS back > from the Linux server, the actual set of access bits you get back won't > have the right bits set; "nfsd_access()" just jumps to "out:" if it gets > a "read-only file system" error, and that doesn't set "*access" to the > result. Oh. "Joy". > If you do want to work around the Linux bug, you'd probably have to send > another ACCESS request over the wire, with the write bits turned off; > I'm not sure whether that's worth the effort or not. Based on that; no. I think if people want to run v3 against a Linux server, they will just have to turn the ACCESS cache off. In the meantime, is there any constructive way we can encourage the Linux NFS folks to fix this behaviour? -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message