From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: When I try to export a FAT partition, I get a Invalid argument when I restart NFS. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Export a FAT partition in /etc/exports in rw mode 2.Restart NFS Actual Results: Invalid argument Expected Results: The NFS export is available in the client computer Additional info:
FAT cannot be NFS exported. NFS requires inode-numbers to be consistent, while FAT doesn't have inode numbers so the kernel can only make numbers up, which as a result aren't consistent (across reboots)
It was working with RedHat 7.0 !
I exported a VFAT filesystem via NFS with read-write permissions. When I try to copy files to this disk (cp -auf ...), the first files are copied correctly then it starts complaining about the NFS file handle (French message : "panne d'accès au fichier NFS") and skips all the remaining files with the same error message.