NeilBrown [neilb@xxxxxxx] wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:15:12 +0200 Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 02/03/2012 03:42 AM, Malahal Naineni wrote: > > > NFSv4 gladly accepts and mounts "hostname:path" instead of > > > "hostname:/path". This causes mount entry mistmatch between /etc/mtab > > > and /proc/mounts files. The former will have "hostname:path" but the > > > latter will have "hostname:/path". This causes umount not work at all. > > > > > > > NACK > > > > like it or not you are changing ABI. Bunch of systems will not work now. > > > > Also some other NFS servers/clients support it fine. Actually some servers > > make it a special case. (It's called mount by tag) > > > > The bug is else where fix it there. Either add the preceding '/' to > > /etc/mtab or remove it from /proc/mounts (I prefer the later). Or > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > fix umount to work with that case. > > Agreed. And while we are at it we should remove the trailing '/' too. > If you > mount host:/path /somewhere > /proc/mounts will show > host:/path/ > > which also confused mount. Thank you Neil and Boaz. Since there is already a fix in umount to take care of trailing slash, I will post a patch to take care of leading slash. Any reason(s) why trailing slash is fixed in umount rather than in /proc/mounts? Thanks, Malahal. -- 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
