[Ocfs2-users] bug resolve yet for export OCFS2 volume to NFS client ?

[Sunil Mushran]

On 03/21/2011 11:52 PM, Thomas Lau wrote:
> I found this from ocfs1.4 document:
> g) NFS
> OCFS2 volumes can be exported as NFS volumes. This support is limited to
> NFS version 3, which translates to Linux kernel version 2.4 or later.
> Users must mount the NFS volumes on the clients using the nordirplus
> mount option. This disables the READDIRPLUS RPC call to workaround a bug
> in NFSD, detailed in the following link:
> http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-announce/2008-June/000025.html
> Users running NFS version 2 can export the volume after having disabled
> subtree checking (mount option no_subtree_check). Be warned, disabling
> the check has security implications (documented in the exports(5) man
> page) that users must evaluate on their own.
>
> is it being fixed with centos 5.3 (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5)?
>
> anything I need to aware for exporting OCFS2 volume via NFS?

This is a NFS bug. It has since been fixed in mainline. Kernels
based on 2.6.32+ should be ok.