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From: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
To: "Stephan Windmüller"
	<stephan.windmueller-ogaGWlaKng3jEoi5djuKH7NAH6kLmebB@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device or resource busy
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:58:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225295932.10717.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081029150927.GE13990-YXCdMCmAy7qELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>

Hi

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:09 +0100, Stephan Windm=C3=BCller wrote:
> On Mon, 27. Oct 2008, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>=20
> > As I said earlier, every time you cross from one volume to another =
(even
> > if it is on the same server), a mountpoint is automatically created=
=2E
>=20
> How do I "cross from one volume to another"?=20

When a user traverses the NFS namespace on the client, and crosses from
one server volume to another (fsid change) the NFS client software
automagically does a mount. This is required to avoid inode number
collisions.

> Is there something I can
> test to reproduce this behaviour? It seems that not all users have th=
is
> problem.

That's because all users don't traverse the file system in the same way=
=2E

>=20
> On the server I shared every single home directory instead of
> /export/home. Could this be the cause of the problem?
>=20
> - Stephan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-27 13:10 Device or resource busy Stephan Windmüller
     [not found] ` <20081027131034.GC25001-YXCdMCmAy7qELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-27 14:01   ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]     ` <1225116112.7842.3.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-27 14:29       ` Stephan Windmüller
     [not found]         ` <20081027142944.GD25001-YXCdMCmAy7qELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-27 15:01           ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]             ` <1225119712.14242.10.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-29 15:09               ` Stephan Windmüller
     [not found]                 ` <20081029150927.GE13990-YXCdMCmAy7qELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-29 15:58                   ` Andy Adamson [this message]

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