Re: [fuse-devel] Exporting FUSE filesystems with NFS

[Franco B. <fr...@fu...>]

Sorry, thought 2.6.3 was a kernel version!

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 20:27 -0500, John Muir wrote:
> Franco Broi wrote:
> > Should 2.6.10 + FUSE 2.5.2 work? This is what I already have and last
> > time I tried it, it didn't work.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 23:39 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >> John Muir reported that 2.6.3 works OK.  2.6.17 should be fine.  The
> >> fuse kernel module in the 2.6.3 package is basically the same as the
> >> one in 2.6.20.
> >>     
> Franco,
> 
> You need version 2.6.x of the FUSE kernel module for NFS exports to be
> more reliable (not lock-up), so you might as well use version 2.6.3.
> Note that the issues described in the README.NFS still apply.
> 
> If your file-system is implemented using the low-level interface
> (fuse_lowlevel.h), and you apply my patches (previously posted) which
> enable a few more NFS export operations, and implement those new
> operations, then you can also eliminate the ESTALE errors resulting when
> the NFS server restarts, or your file-system is unmounted and mounted again.
> 
> My patches will not work with the high-level file name based interface
> (fuse.h) - it is impractical to implement the new NFS interfaces with
> the file name based interface.
> 
> John.
>