From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Adamson Subject: Re: Device or resource busy Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:58:52 -0400 Message-ID: <1225295932.10717.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20081027131034.GC25001@speutel.de> <1225116112.7842.3.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20081027142944.GD25001@speutel.de> <1225119712.14242.10.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20081029150927.GE13990@speutel.de> Reply-To: andros@netapp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Trond Myklebust , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Windm=FCller?= Return-path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:5055 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752083AbYJ2QAD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:00:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081029150927.GE13990-YXCdMCmAy7qELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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