There are long-standing problems with btrfs subvols, particularly in
relation to whether and how they are exposed in the mount table.
- /proc/self/mountinfo reports the major:minor device number for each
filesystem and when a btrfs subvol is explicitly mounted, the number
reported is wrong - it does not match what stat() reports for the
mountpoint.
- when subvol are not explicitly mounted, they don't appear in
mountinfo at all.
Consequences include that a tool which uses stat() to find the dev of the
filesystem, then searches mountinfo for that filesystem, will not find
it.
Some tools (e.g. findmnt) appear to have been enhanced to cope with this
strangeness, but it would be best to make btrfs behave more normally.
- nfsd cannot currently see the transition to subvol, so reports the
main volume and all subvols to the client as being in the same
filesystem. As inode numbers are not unique across all subvols,
this can confuse clients. In particular, 'find' is likely to report a
loop.
subvols can be made to appear in mountinfo using automounts. However
nfsd does not cope well with automounts. It assumes all filesystems to
be exported are already mounted. So adding automounts to btrfs would
break nfsd.
We can enhance nfsd to understand that some automounts can be managed.
"internal mounts" where a filesystem provides an automount point and
mounts its own directories, can be handled differently by nfsd.
This series addresses all these issues. After a few enhancements to the
VFS to provide needed support, they enhance exportfs and nfsd to cope
with the concept of internal mounts, and then enhance btrfs to provide
them.
The NFSv3 support is incomplete. I'm not sure we can make it work
"perfectly". A normal nfsv3 mount seem to work well enough, but if
mounted with '-o noac', it loses track of the mounted-on inode number
and complains about inode numbers changing.
My basic test for these is to mount a btrfs filesystem which contains
subvols, nfs-export it and mount it with nfsv3 and nfsv4, then run
'find' in each of the filesystem and check the contents of
/proc/self/mountinfo.
The first patch simply fixes the dev number in mountinfo and could
possibly be tagged for -stable.
NeilBrown
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NeilBrown (11):
VFS: show correct dev num in mountinfo
VFS: allow d_automount to create in-place bind-mount.
VFS: pass lookup_flags into follow_down()
VFS: export lookup_mnt()
VFS: new function: mount_is_internal()
nfsd: include a vfsmount in struct svc_fh
exportfs: Allow filehandle lookup to cross internal mount points.
nfsd: change get_parent_attributes() to nfsd_get_mounted_on()
nfsd: Allow filehandle lookup to cross internal mount points.
btrfs: introduce mapping function from location to inum
btrfs: use automount to bind-mount all subvol roots.
fs/btrfs/btrfs_inode.h | 12 +++
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
fs/btrfs/super.c | 1 +
fs/exportfs/expfs.c | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++----
fs/fhandle.c | 2 +-
fs/internal.h | 1 -
fs/namei.c | 6 +-
fs/namespace.c | 32 +++++++-
fs/nfsd/export.c | 4 +-
fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c | 40 +++++++---
fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 9 ++-
fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 106 ++++++++++++-------------
fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c | 44 +++++++----
fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h | 3 +-
fs/nfsd/nfsproc.c | 5 +-
fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 162 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
fs/nfsd/vfs.h | 12 +--
fs/nfsd/xdr4.h | 2 +-
fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 5 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 12 ++-
include/linux/exportfs.h | 4 +-
include/linux/mount.h | 4 +
include/linux/namei.h | 2 +-
23 files changed, 490 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-)
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