Commit 2336d696 authored by J. Bruce Fields's avatar J. Bruce Fields
Browse files

nfsd: update create verifier comment 



I don't know if that Solaris behavior matters any more or if it's still
possible to look up that bug ID any more.  The XFS behavior's definitely
still relevant, though; any but the most recent XFS filesystems will
lose the top bits.

Reported-by: default avatarFrank S. Filz <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
parent 130e2054

fs/nfsd/vfs.c

+2 −1
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -1411,7 +1411,8 @@ do_nfsd_create(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, 


	if (nfsd_create_is_exclusive(createmode)) {

		/* solaris7 gets confused (bugid 4218508) if these have

		 * the high bit set, so just clear the high bits. If this is

		 * the high bit set, as do xfs filesystems without the

		 * "bigtime" feature.  So just clear the high bits. If this is

		 * ever changed to use different attrs for storing the

		 * verifier, then do_open_lookup() will also need to be fixed

		 * accordingly.