From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] nfsd: Pin to vfsmnt instead of mntget
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 17:11:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150515211134.GG29627@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150513142515.6bd881c8@notabene.brown>
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 02:25:15PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2015 21:08:47 +0800 Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 5/8/2015 9:47 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > It could also be useful to have the ability to force an unmount even in
> > > the presence of locks. That's not a safe default, but an
> > > "allow_force_unmount" export option might be useful.
>
> We already have a mechanism to forcibly drop any locks by writing some magic
> to /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_{ip,filesystem}. I don't think we need any more.
Yeah, I remember thinking this sort of approach would have advantages,
maybe I was wrong, I need to revisit it.
The unlock_{ip,filesystem} approach requires temporarily shutting down
mountd, doesn't it?
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-15 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-06 13:18 [PATCH 0/4] NFSD: Pin to vfsmount instead of mntget for export cache Kinglong Mee
2015-05-06 13:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] fs_pin: Fix uninitialized value in fs_pin Kinglong Mee
2015-05-07 19:43 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-05-08 0:36 ` Kinglong Mee
2015-05-06 13:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs_pin: Export functions for specific filesystem Kinglong Mee
2015-05-06 13:20 ` [PATCH 3/4] sunrpc: New helper cache_force_expire for cache cleanup Kinglong Mee
2015-05-06 13:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] nfsd: Pin to vfsmnt instead of mntget Kinglong Mee
2015-05-08 4:40 ` NeilBrown
2015-05-08 13:47 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-05-11 13:08 ` Kinglong Mee
2015-05-13 4:25 ` NeilBrown
2015-05-13 12:30 ` Kinglong Mee
2015-05-13 12:55 ` Kinglong Mee
2015-05-15 21:11 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2015-05-15 23:23 ` NeilBrown
2015-05-22 15:02 ` Kinglong Mee
2015-05-22 16:03 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-05-15 21:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
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