From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] umount.nfs: normalize path names during umounts.
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:38:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F557898.7040002@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120306022505.GA32281@us.ibm.com>
On 03/05/2012 09:25 PM, Malahal Naineni wrote:
> Jim Rees [rees@umich.edu] wrote:
>> I don't understand the backward compatibility issue. Are there times when
>> you have a mount, and it's in /etc/mtab, but not in /proc/mounts? I don't
>> see how that's possible.
>
> No, but that is what NFS umount thinks due to slight differences in
> those two files. Happens only in NFSv4 world.
Exactly... When /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are not symbolically
linked the v4 mount are written differently to both files as
well as v3 mount are also written differently that v4 mounts...
steved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 2:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-05 19:36 [PATCH 0/1] Normalized path names on umounts (take 2) Steve Dickson
2012-03-05 19:36 ` [PATCH 1/1] umount.nfs: normalize path names during umounts Steve Dickson
2012-03-05 21:20 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-03-05 21:30 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-03-06 0:28 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-06 0:27 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-06 0:31 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-06 0:53 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-06 1:04 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-06 1:35 ` Steve Dickson
2012-03-06 1:52 ` Jim Rees
2012-03-06 2:25 ` Malahal Naineni
2012-03-06 2:38 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2012-03-05 19:37 ` [PATCH 0/1] Normalized path names on umounts (take 2) Chuck Lever
2012-03-05 19:44 ` Steve Dickson
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