Bug 45525 – NFS can not export a FAT partition

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Bug 45525 - NFS can not export a FAT partition

Summary:	NFS can not export a FAT partition

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	nfs-server (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Steve Dickson
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Reported:	2001-06-22 11:15 EDT by Christian Lepine
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:33 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-08-11 06:40:57 EDT
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Description Christian Lepine 2001-06-22 11:15:57 EDT

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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

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Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-06-22 11:38:47 EDT

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)

Comment 2 Christian Lepine 2001-06-22 12:51:43 EDT

It was working with RedHat 7.0 !

Comment 3 Patrice Guay 2003-11-19 11:58:20 EST

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'accÃ¨s au fichier NFS") and skips all
the remaining files with the same error message.

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