On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 11:42 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:40:30AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > I mean that I'm perfectly entitled to do > > > > 'modprobe -r blocklayoutdriver' > > > > and when I do that, then I expect blkmapd to close the rpc pipe and wait > > for a new one to be created just like rpc.idmapd and rpc.gssd do when I > > remove the nfs and sunrpc modules. > > The rpc pipefs mount doesn't hold a reference on the sunrpc module? I stand corrected: the mount does hold a reference to the sunrpc module. However nothing holds a reference to the blocklayoutdriver module, so the main point that the "blocklayout" pipe can disappear from underneath the blkmapd stands. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- 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
