Re: [PATCH] Check for beginning '/' in the mount path

[Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>]

NeilBrown [neilb@suse.de] wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:15:12 +0200 Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 02/03/2012 03:42 AM, Malahal Naineni wrote:
> > > NFSv4 gladly accepts and mounts "hostname:path" instead of
> > > "hostname:/path". This causes mount entry mistmatch between /etc/mtab
> > > and /proc/mounts files. The former will have "hostname:path" but the
> > > latter will have "hostname:/path". This causes umount not work at all.
> > > 
> > 
> > NACK
> > 
> > like it or not you are changing ABI. Bunch of systems will not work now.
> > 
> > Also some other NFS servers/clients support it fine. Actually some servers
> > make it a special case. (It's called mount by tag)
> > 
> > The bug is else where fix it there. Either add the preceding '/' to
> > /etc/mtab or remove it from /proc/mounts (I prefer the later). Or
>                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > fix umount to work with that case.
> 
> Agreed.  And while we are at it we should remove the trailing '/' too.
> If you
>   mount host:/path /somewhere
> /proc/mounts will show
>     host:/path/
> 
> which also confused mount.

Thank you Neil and Boaz. Since there is already a fix in umount to take
care of trailing slash, I will post a patch to take care of leading
slash.

Any reason(s) why trailing slash is fixed in umount rather than in
/proc/mounts?

Thanks, Malahal.