The comment explaining the need to recheck the devices list
suggests that nfs mounts/unmounts may occur when automount
is involved, but they can happen for other reasons as well.
Make the comment explain the issue more broadly.
Signed-off-by: Frank Sorenson <sorenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/nfs-iostat/nfs-iostat.py | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/nfs-iostat/nfs-iostat.py b/tools/nfs-iostat/nfs-iostat.py
index 08b827c0..1502b431 100755
--- a/tools/nfs-iostat/nfs-iostat.py
+++ b/tools/nfs-iostat/nfs-iostat.py
@@ -631,8 +631,8 @@ client are listed.
time.sleep(interval)
sample_time = interval
mountstats = parse_stats_file('/proc/self/mountstats')
- # automount mountpoints add and drop, if automount is involved
- # we need to recheck the devices list when reparsing
+ # nfs mountpoints may appear or disappear, so we need to
+ # recheck the devices list each time we parse mountstats
devices = list_nfs_mounts(origdevices,mountstats)
if len(devices) == 0:
print('No NFS mount points were found')
@@ -645,8 +645,8 @@ client are listed.
time.sleep(interval)
sample_time = interval
mountstats = parse_stats_file('/proc/self/mountstats')
- # automount mountpoints add and drop, if automount is involved
- # we need to recheck the devices list when reparsing
+ # nfs mountpoints may appear or disappear, so we need to
+ # recheck the devices list each time we parse mountstats
devices = list_nfs_mounts(origdevices,mountstats)
if len(devices) == 0:
print('No NFS mount points were found')
--
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