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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:14:52 +0100
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Guy Harris <gharris@flashcom.net>, Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>, Linux NFS mailing list <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [NFS] Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export
Message-ID:  <20010125011452.C12526@emma1.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101242030.f0OKUTI00828@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:30:29 -0800
References:  <20010124104216.F344@quadrajet.flashcom.com> <200101242030.f0OKUTI00828@mass.dis.org>

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> 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?

No need to, a patch that makes my boxes work has been published on the
Linux-kernel mailing list and I think it may be integrated into 2.2.19
if someone asks Alan to merge it, and Linus would certainly not reject a
similar fix for 2.4.1 if needed.

> 


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