Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] nfs-utils: Improving NFS re-exports

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> Von: "bfields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> The reason why setting the timeout to 0 is still needed is because
>> when mountd uncovers a subvolume but no client uses it a filehandle,
>> it is not locked and can be unmounted later.
>> Only when nfsd sees a matching filehandle the reference counter will
>> be increased and umounting is no longer possible.
> 
> I understand that.  But, then if a client comes in with a matching
> filehandle, mountd should be able to look up the filesystem and trigger
> a new mount, right?

This does not match what I saw in my experiments. The handle machted only
when the subvolume was mounted before.
But I understand now your point, in theory it should work.
I'll investigate into this.

Thanks,
//richard



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