[PLUG] NFS:Linux server and Irix client

[Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>]

I wish to add an Irix 6.2 client to my linux NFS server.  I read the following about it on sourceforge:

Irix versions up to 6.5.12 have problems mounting file systems exported from Linux boxes - the mount point "gets lost," e.g.,

	# mount linux:/disk1 /mnt
	# cd /mnt/xyz/abc
	# pwd
	/xyz/abc
   

    This is known IRIX bug (SGI bug 815265 - IRIX not liking file handles of
    less than 32 bytes), which is fixed in IRIX 6.5.13.
    If it is not possible 
    to upgrade to IRIX 6.5.13, then the unofficial 
    workaround is to force the Linux nfsd 
    to always use 32 byte file handles

I tried to look up this workaround, but I can't find how to force nfsd
to always use 32 byte file handles.  Excuse my ignorance, but I do
no know what a file handle is.

Thanks,

Michael
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