15 Jan
1999
15 Jan
'99
6:16 a.m.
if he's seeing this often. A kernel-compile-time option, CONFIG_NFS_SNAPSHOT, was added to Linux around 2.1.130, and is in the 2.2.0-pre releases.
Jim Davis jdavis@CS.Arizona.EDU writes:
Our linux guy installed a kernel with this option and the user who reported the problem says it's gone now. Thanks!
The CONFIG_NFS_SNAPSHOT option has been #defined by default since it went in in 2.1.82, so you shouldn't need to make any configuration changes to get it.
More importantly, Linux 2.2.0-pre5 has an additional .snapshot fix that you probably want. (Although, you would want to use 2.2.0-pre7 instead.)
- Dan