On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:10 +0100, Stephan Windmüller wrote: > Hello! > > On our Ubuntu (8.04) machine we mount home directories from a Solaris > server with NFS and autofs. From time to time users complain that they > are unable to delete any directories. The error message is "Device or > resource busy". > > When I look with "nfsstat -m", I can see a lot of mount points for each > user, including the directory which cannot be deleted. One user had a > total of 200 mounts! > > My question is: Why does NFS mount each directory seperately? > > Here is an example output for a user: > > /ldaphome/username from host:/export/username > Flags: rw,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,intr, > proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=host > > TIA > Stephan If /export/username is on a different volume from /export on the server, then the NFS client has to mount it as being a different volume on the client. 'cat /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes' should be able to tell you if your server is exporting more than one volume. Cheers Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
