[Unionfs] unionfs 2.1 and NFS exports

[Michael MacDonald]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 12:54 -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
> > I've gotten the impression from reading through the list archives that
> > what I'm trying to do should work in theory.  If I'm mistaken, I'd
> > really appreciate confirmation so that I don't waste time trying to
> > figure out what's broken.
> > 
> > Do I need to be using the ODF branch in order to get NFS export
> > capabilities?
> > 
> > I'm also willing to play with a newer kernel, if that is more likely to
> > work -- I just don't want to go through the trouble only to discover
> > that it doesn't work either.
> > 
> Michael, I'll have to check this out soon.  I've been busy preparing the
> next release.  Can you in the mean time open a bug report on this, an
> describe everything in as much detail as you can.  Also, is there a way you
> can setup a small client/server scenario that demonstrates the problem, w/o
> the per-this and per-that complication?  It's always very helpful if I can
> have a small and simple setup to test and reproduce problems.
> 
I'll work on cooking up a reproducer.  Thanks for the response; mostly I
just wanted to be sure that what I am trying to do is at least supposed
to be possible, as opposed to definitely unpossible.  :)

Thanks,

Mike