I hope it's not in the kernel, it sort of "breaks" NFS to match the SGI bug.
Well actually I briefly looked at the patch, it's not automatic. A
patched kernel still has to turn on the compatibiltiy
mode with a kernel line option.(lh=1 or something like that)
so I tried [mount -t nfs 192.168.1.141:/abyss /tmp/somewhere] and it worked!
I guess localhost is mapping to 127.0.0.1 which is excluded by my /etc/exports
file.
right.
Now it works on the SG, but only if I use the command line. I had been using
their GUI filesystem manager, but it still can't find the /abyss directory.
Well, if you add it to your /etc/fstab then it should be just a one time
change (weird that the GUI interface
doesn't work tho)
It even works on the SGIs with the old OS, so I guess the patch did get rolled
into the kernel. Or else maybe the bug is intermittent/slow to show a problem?
My understanding is with older versions of IRIX things like "ls" when
there are a lot of files in a directory
won't work, but yea it's possible that they've found a way to work
around the problem automatically.
Those linux kernel hackers are pretty smart :-)
--Ray
