On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 23:10 +0800, Peng Tao wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Myklebust, Trond > <trond.mykleb...@netapp.com> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: tao.p...@emc.com [mailto:tao.p...@emc.com] > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:40 AM > >> To: skinsbur...@parallels.com > >> Cc: Myklebust, Trond; linux-...@vger.kernel.org; xe...@parallels.com; > >> ne...@suse.de; net...@vger.kernel.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > >> jbottom...@parallels.com; bfie...@fieldses.org; da...@davemloft.net; > >> devel@openvz.org > >> Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference > >> from blocklayout routines > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- > >> > From: Stanislav Kinsbursky [mailto:skinsbur...@parallels.com] > >> > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:19 PM > >> > To: Peng, Tao > >> > Cc: trond.mykleb...@netapp.com; linux-...@vger.kernel.org; Pavel > >> > Emelianov; ne...@suse.de; net...@vger.kernel.org; > >> > linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; James Bottomley; bfie...@fieldses.org; > >> > da...@davemloft.net; devel@openvz.org > >> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference > >> > from blocklayout routines > >> > > >> > 29.11.2011 16:00, tao.p...@emc.com пишет: > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> > >> From: linux-nfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org > >> > >> [mailto:linux-nfs-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of > >> > Stanislav > >> > >> Kinsbursky > >> > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 6:11 PM > >> > >> To: trond.mykleb...@netapp.com > >> > >> Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org; xe...@parallels.com; ne...@suse.de; > >> > >> net...@vger.kernel.org; linux- ker...@vger.kernel.org; > >> > >> jbottom...@parallels.com; bfie...@fieldses.org; > >> > >> da...@davemloft.net; devel@openvz.org > >> > >> Subject: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference > >> > >> from blocklayout routines > >> > >> > >> > >> This is a cleanup patch. We don't need this reference anymore, > >> > >> because blocklayout pipes dentries now creates and destroys in > >> > >> per-net operations and on PipeFS mount/umount notification. > >> > >> Note that nfs4blocklayout_register_net() now returns 0 instead of > >> > >> -ENOENT in case of PipeFS superblock absence. This is ok, because > >> > >> blocklayout pipe dentry will be created on PipeFS mount event. > >> > > When is the "pipefs mount event" going to happen? When inserting > >> > > kernel modules or when user issues > >> > mount command? > >> > > > >> > > >> > When user issues mount command. > >> > Kernel mounts of PipeFS has been removed with all these patch sets > >> > I've sent already. > >> Then it is going to break blocklayout user space program blkmapd, which is > >> stared before mounting any file system and it tries to open the pipe file > >> when started. > > > > Why on earth is blkmapd doing this instead of listening for file creation > > notifications like the other rpc_pipefs daemons do? > Not sure how the original implementer chose this but I think it is > likely because we do not expect the pipe file to be created or deleted > dynamically.
Unless blkmapd can pin the sunrpc module (which it shouldn't be able to) then that assumption would be wrong. Please look into fixing blkmapd... Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp trond.mykleb...@netapp.com www.netapp.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
