Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote:
"This is not mandrake fault but the way reiserfs was developt (the new
version witch is included in the 2.4 kernel series dosent work well with
older reiserfs partitions)"
I am not blaming Mandrake for something (reiserfs) that they did NOT do.
Instead I am trying to figure out what they DID do, specifically with
respect to reiserfs and NFS.
I created some large reiserfs partitions using Mandrake 7.1.
These were mounted on an SGI system running IRIX 6.5, and
everything worked without any problems.
Then I installed mdk 8.0 from scratch but without erasing any of
the large data partitions.
I could mount (NFS) the reiserfs partitions created under mdk 7.1, but
pwd does not give the absolute path of the mount point. Only the internal path
is given using the 2.4.3 kernel. Having no knowledge about the subtle
differences between reiserfs on the 2.4 kernel and the 2.2 kernel I installed
the 2.2.19 kernel on my mdk-8.0 system, and pwd now gives the full absolute path,
including the externel part. Everything now again works flawlessly.
But the situation is complex. The mounting of the old reiserfs running
under the new 2.4.3 kernel actually worked on other Linux systems, as well
as on the HP-UX OS.
To clear up the confusion I contacted Hans Reiser who in turn asked Alan Cox.
Alan Cox:
"Standard kernel trees dont support mounting of reiserfs over NFS. I assume
mandrake patched their 2.2 but not 2.4 to allow this"
So, according to Alan Mandrake must have made some special patches
for mounting reiserfs over NFS, and I am only on a fishing expedition
trying to obtain a comment from Mandrake.
-- Bjarne Thomsen
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