Re: [PATCH 1/1] umount.nfs: normalize path names during umounts.

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On 03/05/2012 09:25 PM, Malahal Naineni wrote:
> Jim Rees [rees@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:
>> I don't understand the backward compatibility issue.  Are there times when
>> you have a mount, and it's in /etc/mtab, but not in /proc/mounts?  I don't
>> see how that's possible.
> 
> No, but that is what NFS umount thinks due to slight differences in
> those two files. Happens only in NFSv4 world. 
Exactly... When /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are not symbolically 
linked the v4 mount are written differently to both files as 
well as v3 mount are also written differently that v4 mounts...

steved.

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