From 217042f6403ad727b8ab85839b99ae15987be892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:07:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update doc --- README.NFS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.NFS b/README.NFS index fecc436..11a8877 100644 --- a/README.NFS +++ b/README.NFS @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ NFS exporting is supported on kernels versions >= 2.6.0. For 2.4.X kernels the exporting infrastructure is not refined enough, so don't expect this to work. +Also FUSE module in official kernels (>= 2.6.14) don't support NFS +exporting. In this case if you need NFS exporting capability, use the +'--enable-kernel-module' configure option to compile the module from +this package. And make sure, that the FUSE is not compiled into the +kernel (CONFIG_FUSE_FS must be 'm' or 'n'). + You need to add an fsid=NNN option to /etc/exports to make exporting a FUSE directory work. @@ -10,3 +16,6 @@ because the current FUSE kernel API and the userspace library cannot handle a situation where the kernel forgets about an inode which is still referenced by the remote NFS client. This problem will be addressed in a later version. + +In the future it planned that NFS exporting will be done solely in +userspace. -- 2.30.2