Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-25 Thread Matthias Andree
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.2.19pre has all the changes Neil has sent me. One reason I wanted to avoid > NFS changes was that they would do somthings we didnt want. And they did > although nothing too bad. > > The 2.2.19 schedule btw is about another week Nice to hear that's it's

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-23 Thread james rich
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Brown) writes: > > > > Oh, please not again a stable kernel series with NFS problems, we're > > locked in for ages. 2.2 was bad enough up to 2.2.18. We have

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-23 Thread Alan Cox
> > Oh, please not again a stable kernel series with NFS problems, we're > > locked in for ages. 2.2 was bad enough up to 2.2.18. We have ReiserFS > > in 2.4.1 (and not in 2.4.0), could we _please_ get NFS-exportable > > ReiserFS in 2.4.4 or 2.4.5? > > 2.2.18 is still broken, won't play NFSv3

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-23 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Brown) writes: > > > I am looking forward to seeing lots of downloads and absolutely no > > problem reports but is seems unlikely. > > > Alan Cox has suggested that these changes may not be appropriate for > >

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-23 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Brown) writes: I am looking forward to seeing lots of downloads and absolutely no problem reports but is seems unlikely. Alan Cox has suggested that these changes may not be appropriate for 2.4, so we

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-23 Thread Alan Cox
Oh, please not again a stable kernel series with NFS problems, we're locked in for ages. 2.2 was bad enough up to 2.2.18. We have ReiserFS in 2.4.1 (and not in 2.4.0), could we _please_ get NFS-exportable ReiserFS in 2.4.4 or 2.4.5? 2.2.18 is still broken, won't play NFSv3 games with

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-23 Thread james rich
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Brown) writes: Oh, please not again a stable kernel series with NFS problems, we're locked in for ages. 2.2 was bad enough up to 2.2.18. We have ReiserFS in

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Brown) writes: > I am looking forward to seeing lots of downloads and absolutely no > problem reports but is seems unlikely. > Alan Cox has suggested that these changes may not be appropriate for > 2.4, so we might have to wait for 2.5 to see them on kernel.org, but

Re: TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-22 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Brown) writes: I am looking forward to seeing lots of downloads and absolutely no problem reports but is seems unlikely. Alan Cox has suggested that these changes may not be appropriate for 2.4, so we might have to wait for 2.5 to see them on kernel.org, but we

TESTERS PLEASE - improvements to knfsd for 2.4.2

2001-02-21 Thread Neil Brown
Dear all, as you may have noticed from earlier postings on these lists, I have a bunch of patches that change the way knfsd interacts with filesystems. In particular it makes it possible to export reiserfs and other modern filesystesm (providing they have been told how to work with