From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760978AbYESMgl (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 08:36:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760494AbYESMgN (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 08:36:13 -0400 Received: from smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net ([88.44.63.6]:28085 "EHLO smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760477AbYESMgM (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 08:36:12 -0400 To: Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig , LKML , Adrian Hunter Subject: Re: [PATCH take 2] UBIFS - new flash file system From: Andi Kleen References: <1210070159-22794-1-git-send-email-Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> <20080516104002.GA6962@infradead.org> <483164F2.1010908@nokia.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 14:36:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <483164F2.1010908@nokia.com> (Artem Bityutskiy's message of "Mon, 19 May 2008 14:30:58 +0300") Message-ID: <87prribhdx.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 May 2008 12:29:08.0189 (UTC) FILETIME=[EF1758D0:01C8B9AB] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Artem Bityutskiy writes: > > Could you please elaborate some more why UBIFS won't ever support nfs export? > Does NFS export need correct readdir restarts? Yes, because NFS is stateless. The seek offset has to be valid even over a reboot. If you don't handle it you should probably better forbid nfs export completely to avoid subtle problems. -Andi