----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > 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