On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 11:25:14PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> The NFSv3 SERVER (for which Andrea made his patch)
> actually MUST open local files with O_LARGEFILE
> flag set. (Otherwise e.g. EXT2 may reject the open.)
Exactly, that is the code-sharing implementation detail I was mentioning. That
must be true not only for ext2 of course but for every other fs that nfsd is
sitting upon. That was just fine in 2.4.0-test10-pre4. Andi spotted and fixed
that some week ago.
> The NFSv3 CLIENT code must do post-open verification,
> that if the opened file has size exceeding 2G-1, and
> O_LARGEFILE flag is not set, the opened file must be
> closed, and caller must be informed of the rejection
> with -EFBIG status.
> (If possible, do that size verification before open.)
2.2.18pre17aa1 lfs is completly complaint in this sense.
> Am I making any sense ?
You're completly right.
Andrea
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