On Tuesday 12 February 2008 01:50:45 Henrik Grindal Bakken wrote:
> Hi.  I'm running a setup where I have a powerpc linux with a NAND
> flash, on which I have a yaffs(2) filesystem.  This is mounted on
> /mnt/base.  Now, I end up exporting this filesystem (actually, a
> subdirectory from it) to a series of arm processors, also running
> linux.
>
> I have made one relevant change to yaffs, namely to provide an empty
> struct export_operations as sb->s_export_op.  Otherwise, nfs won't
> touch it.  The same approach has been suggested earlier on this list,
> stolen from jffs2.
>
> This, as it happens, works to an extent.  If I mount read-write, it
> hangs, if I mount read-only, it works, but only up to one or two
> clients.  I'm not entirely certain where stuff hangs, but at least it
> hangs to the extent that searching $PATH for anything on /mnt/base
> hangs forever.
>
> It appears to me that nfs-exporting yaffs filesystems is shaky at
> best.  Is this something anyone does or has any experience with?

What kind of problems are you seeing?