[fedfs-utils] support for junctions in RHEL 6 kernels

[Chuck Lever]

On Oct 21, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi-
> 
> At the NFS bake-a-thon last month we discussed the possibility of adding junction support to RHEL 6 kernels.  Here are the two commits I believe are necessary to enable NFSD upcalls when the kernel encounters a junction.
> 
> 
> commit 11fcee0293a6d9f0973e04f8b3fb6cd15a55bcce
> Author: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com>
> Date:   Mon Sep 12 19:37:26 2011 -0400
> 
>    NFSD: Add a cache for fs_locations information
> 
> commit 9b4146e85536ebd6b989f43906986e34486efdba
> Author: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 4 16:26:43 2012 -0500
> 
>    NFSD: Change name of extended attribute containing junction


I've filed Red Hat bugzilla 1024034 to document a request for junction support in RHEL 6 NFSD.

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Chuck Lever
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