| Miklos Szeredi | ff5fa7f | 2006-09-30 13:15:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | FUSE module in official kernels (>= 2.6.14) don't support NFS |
| Miklos Szeredi | 217042f | 2005-09-26 09:07:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | exporting. In this case if you need NFS exporting capability, use the |
| 3 | '--enable-kernel-module' configure option to compile the module from |
| 4 | this package. And make sure, that the FUSE is not compiled into the |
| 5 | kernel (CONFIG_FUSE_FS must be 'm' or 'n'). |
| 6 | |
| Miklos Szeredi | e815c03 | 2004-01-19 18:20:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | You need to add an fsid=NNN option to /etc/exports to make exporting a |
| 8 | FUSE directory work. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | You may get ESTALE (Stale NFS file handle) errors with this. This is |
| 11 | because the current FUSE kernel API and the userspace library cannot |
| Miklos Szeredi | 307242f | 2004-01-26 11:28:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | handle a situation where the kernel forgets about an inode which is |
| Miklos Szeredi | e815c03 | 2004-01-19 18:20:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | still referenced by the remote NFS client. This problem will be |
| 14 | addressed in a later version. |
| Miklos Szeredi | 217042f | 2005-09-26 09:07:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| 16 | In the future it planned that NFS exporting will be done solely in |
| 17 | userspace. |