On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 15:18 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > I think the part that causes problems is having userspace do this. In > theory, if the kernel were in charge of sending the UMNT, then it's not > really a problem since it knows when to do it. If we have code that > sends a UMNT already, why not do a best-effort UMNT call from the > kernel when we tear down the sb? Purely for the pleasure of allowing the server to maintain inaccurate statistics about who is currently mounting what? I think not... You can get far more accurate results by replacing the MNT/UMNT state counter with a purely server-based scheme to track who accessed one or more files on each exported partition in the past 5 minutes or so. That would even work with NFSv4... > Either way, eliminating umount.nfs would be nice... Agreed. 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
