Hans de Bruin <jmdebruin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 10/24/2014 08:18 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: [...] >> At this point I don't know enough to reproduce this. >> What does /proc/mounts look like before you start dosemu? > > bash-4.2$ cat /proc/mounts > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > 10.10.0.1:/nfs/root/psion_14.1 / nfs > rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,namlen=255,hard,nolock,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.10.0.1,mountvers=3,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=all,addr=10.10.0.1 > 0 0 > devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=1031016k,nr_inodes=220978,mode=755 0 0 > proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0 > tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0 > /dev/shm /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime,size=524288k 0 0 > /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,relatime,size=524288k 0 0 > nfs:/nfs/usr/slackware-14.1/usr /usr nfs > ro,relatime,vers=3,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.10.0.1,mountvers=3,mountport=38337,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.10.0.1 > 0 0 > nfs:/nfs/home /home nfs > rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.10.0.1,mountvers=3,mountport=38337,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.10.0.1 > 0 0 > nfs:/nfs/mp3 /mp3 nfs > rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.10.0.1,mountvers=3,mountport=38337,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.10.0.1 > 0 0 > nfs:/nfs/src /usr/src nfs > rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.10.0.1,mountvers=3,mountport=38337,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.10.0.1 > 0 0 > nfs:/nfs/video /video nfs > rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.10.0.1,mountvers=3,mountport=38337,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=10.10.0.1 > 0 0 > > I now know why I do not see any file in /usr after running dosemu. The whole > /usr mount disappears in /proc/mounts. When I remount it I have a usable laptop > again. Running dosemu a second time does not remove the mount again. In the mean > time I have seen /usr disappear after running other programs like xterm and > firefox. But until now never after remouting it. That is interesting. It sounds like occassionally your /home mount disappears as well. Both of those would be consistent with my patch working doing what it was designed to do. My guess is that your nfs mount on / is being weird, and causing valid directory dentries (AKA /usr and /home) to disappear temporariliy, and it looks like my change is magnifying that weirdness by causing the mounts on those directory entries to disappear. What I don't understand is exactly why nfs is being weird that way yet. I expect what needs to happen is to confirm that nfs directory entry revalidation is buggy, and at least for the short term re-add the nfs logic that will avoid dropping a dentry if it is a mount point, or path to a mount point, to avoid the nfs bugs. >> My expectation is that you should only see this if the mount points are >> removed on the nfs server (which does not sound like it is the case). > > This is a at home environment with a nfs server in the meter cupboard. I have > not changed the exports. On the nfs server doing "rmdir .../nfs/posion_14.1/home" or "rmdir .../nfs/posion_14.1/usr" should cause the behavior you are seeing. As that you aren't doing that something is weird is going on. >> Although a transient malfunction of the nfs server or misplaced call to >> check_submounts_and_drop could cause mounts to disappear as well. >> During testing autofs was observed to have an inappropriate call > > I am not using autofs I mentioned autofs because I think something similar is probably going on with nfs, as was observed with autofs. >> to d_invalidate and it is unlikely but possible something like >> that is going on with nfs as well. >> >> Are your nfs mounts read-only or read-write? > /usr is mounted ro and exported ro / is mounted read-write but that seems seems immaterial at the moment. >> What is your nfs-server and what is it exporting? >> Which distro are you running? > > The nfs-server is slackware64 14.0 with a 3.4 kernel > part from exports: > /nfs/usr -ro,async,no_subtree_check 10.10.0.0/16 > > The laptop is slackware(32 bit) 14.1 with yesterday's linus kernel > >> Which version of dosemu are you running? > > 1.4.0.8 Thanks that information helps. Eric -- 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