Re: [PATCH 10/10 v7] nfsd: Allows user un-mounting filesystem where nfsd exports base on

NeilBrown
2015-07-15T23:40:55Z

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:07:56 -0400 "J. Bruce Fields"
<bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

> > Wow.... this is turning out to be a lot more complex that I imagined at
> > first (isn't that always the way!).
> >
> > There is a lot of good stuff here, but I think we can probably make it
> > simpler and so even better.
>
> I'm still not convinced that the expkey should have a dentry reference
> in the key in the first place. Fixing that would fix the immediate
> problem.

??? If we removed the dentry, how would you export a subdirectory of a
filesystem?

NeilBrown

>
> (Though it might still be useful to have a way to do stuff on umount of
> an exported filesystem.)
>
> --b.
>