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On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:53:20AM -0400, Jim wrote:
> Thanks for the response.  When I say mounts don't work I mean that
> when I try to mount an exported directory on an older os (most of my
> machines are centos 5.7) with a non btrfs kernel I get an "unknown
> filesystem" error.  If we can get around this I would be very happy.

   On my NFS exports, I found that I have to set the fsid to something
unique for each subvolume I export. In my case, this prevents all of
the exported filesystems being the same, but it might also help with
your problem.

/media/video                      *(ro,async,fsid=0x13570,no_subtree_check)

   Hugo.

> 
> On 06/05/2012 11:47 AM, Hugo Mills wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:38:11AM -0400, Jim wrote:
> >>Good morning btrfs list,
> >>I had written about 2 weeks ago about using extra btrfs space in an
> >>nfs file system setup.  Nfs seems to export the files but the mounts
> >>don't work on older machines without btrfs kernels.
> >    "The mounts don't work" -- can you be more specific here?
> >
> >    It would seem that if we can get to the bottom of that problem, you
> >won't have to muck around with your current set-up at all.
> >
> >    Hugo.
> >
> 

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