Re: [PATCH 0/1] Normalized path names on umounts (take 2)

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On 03/05/2012 02:37 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
> On Mar 5, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
>> There is a second attempted at making paths in the
>> device names that have multiple slashes or no slash
>> at all unmount-able, without breaking any APIs.
>>
>> Due to the way entries are written to both the /etc/mtab
>> and /proc/mounts, multiple slash have to be stripped and
>> leading slash have to be added (when they don't exist) 
>> on v4 mounts.
> 
> I thought a pathname without a leading slash was allowed for NFSv4, for mounting OSD devices?  Not really sure.
Sorry I guess I didn't make myself clear... this adding and subtracting 
of slashes only happen on umounts and only if /etc/mtab is not symbolically
to /proc/mounts.  Has no effect on the mounts that do or do not have 
slashes... Is that a bit clearer? 

steved.

> 
>> With v3 mounts this normalization can 
>> not occur since those entries are always in the same format.
>>
>> Finally, this normalization only needs to happen
>> when the mtab and /proc/mounts are not the same file.
>>
>> Steve Dickson (1):
>>  umount.nfs: normalize path names during umounts.
>>
>> utils/mount/nfsumount.c |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> 1 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
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