If there are some mount points(not exported for nfs) under pseudo root, after client's operation of those entry under the root, anyone *can't* unmount those mount points until export cache expired. # cat /etc/exports /nfs/xfs *(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) /nfs/pnfs *(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) # ll /nfs/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 84 Apr 21 22:27 pnfs drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 84 Apr 21 22:27 test drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Apr 20 22:01 xfs # mount /dev/sde /nfs/test # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on ...... /dev/sdd 1038336 32944 1005392 4% /nfs/pnfs /dev/sdc 10475520 32928 10442592 1% /nfs/xfs /dev/sde 999320 1284 929224 1% /nfs/test # mount -t nfs 127.0.0.1:/nfs/ /mnt # ll /mnt/*/ /mnt/pnfs/: total 0 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Apr 21 22:23 attr drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Apr 21 22:19 tmp /mnt/xfs/: total 0 # umount /nfs/test/ umount: /nfs/test/: target is busy (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).) It's caused by exports cache of nfsd holds the reference of the path (here is /nfs/test/), so, it can't be umounted. I don't think that's user expect, they want umount /nfs/test/. Bruce think user can also umount /nfs/pnfs/ and /nfs/xfs. This patch site lets nfsd exports pinning to vfsmount, not using mntget, so user can umount any exports mountpoint now. v3, 1. New helpers path_get_pin/path_put_unpin for path pin. 2. Use kzalloc for allocating memory. v4, Thanks for Al Viro's commets for the logic of fs_pin. 1. add a completion for pin_kill waiting the reference is decreased to zero. 2. add a work_struct for pin_kill decreases the reference indirectly. 3. free svc_export/svc_expkey in pin_kill, not svc_export_put/svc_expkey_put. 4. svc_export_put/svc_expkey_put go though pin_kill logic. Kinglong Mee (5): fs_pin: Initialize value for fs_pin explicitly fs_pin: Export functions for specific filesystem path: New helpers path_get_pin/path_put_unpin for path pin sunrpc: New helper cache_force_expire for cache cleanup nfsd: Allows user un-mounting filesystem where nfsd exports base on fs/fs_pin.c | 4 ++ fs/namei.c | 26 ++++++++++++ fs/nfsd/export.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- fs/nfsd/export.h | 18 ++++++++- include/linux/fs_pin.h | 6 +++ include/linux/path.h | 4 ++ include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h | 11 +++++ 7 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- 2.4.2 -- 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