ANNOUNCE : nfs-utils 1.0.3 This release is primarily for people using or planning to use nfsd on 2.5 series kernels. Other user's may upgrade if they like. There are a few small fixes which might be of interest. See the Change Log. The system call interface for exporting filesystems via NFS is defined using types like "__kernel_dev_t" which should only be used internally to the kernel. Using these in a user-space interface was a poor decission. There are patches available for 2.5 which change __kernel_dev_t, at least for i386, to be 32 bit instead of 16 bit. This is an incompatable change and nfs-utils does not work correctly on kernels with these patches. This version of nfs-utils uses an alternate interface which is available in 2.5 to export file systems. This interface is not sensitive to changes in kernel internal type definitions, and so will work independantly of these patches. If the new interface is not available (as it is not in 2.4), this version of nfs-utils will fall back to the old style interface. Thus this version should work on all platforms and all kernel releases. It may be that when these patches are finally included into the mainline, we will able to keep the old systemcall interface working. However as this is not certain, using 1.0.3 (or later) is probably the best choice. NeilBrown