Talking with Neil and Bruce, it seems somewhere down the line UUIDs started to taking precedence over the setting fsid= export option when composing file handles which is wrong. This patch restores fsids taking precedence over UUIDs during file handing composing.
steved.
Author: Steve Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Feb 14 15:48:20 EST 2008 When determining the fsid_type in fh_compose(), the setting of the FID via fsid= export option needs to take precedence over using the UUID device id. Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -up linux-2.6.24.i686/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c.orig linux-2.6.24.i686/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c --- linux-2.6.24.i686/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c.orig 2008-02-14 12:52:46.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.24.i686/fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c 2008-02-14 14:13:09.000000000 -0500 @@ -410,6 +410,8 @@ fh_compose(struct svc_fh *fhp, struct sv goto retry; break; } + } else if (exp->ex_flags & NFSEXP_FSID) { + fsid_type = FSID_NUM; } else if (exp->ex_uuid) { if (fhp->fh_maxsize >= 64) { if (root_export) @@ -422,9 +424,7 @@ fh_compose(struct svc_fh *fhp, struct sv else fsid_type = FSID_UUID4_INUM; } - } else if (exp->ex_flags & NFSEXP_FSID) - fsid_type = FSID_NUM; - else if (!old_valid_dev(ex_dev)) + } else if (!old_valid_dev(ex_dev)) /* for newer device numbers, we must use a newer fsid format */ fsid_type = FSID_ENCODE_DEV; else