Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:51:52 +0900
From:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
To:	Fields James <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Morton Andrew <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Harrosh Boaz <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	"<linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
	Vivek Trivedi <t.vivek@...sung.com>,
	Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] nfs: Add NFS3PROC_UMOUNT procedure.

2012/6/25, Fields James <bfields@...ldses.org>:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 02:12:49PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
>> 2012/6/24, Fields James <bfields@...ldses.org>:
>> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:57:10AM -0400, Fields James wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:52:20PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
>> >> > The other objection is that NFSv3 already has a way to do this via
>> >> > the
>> >> > MOUNT protocol. We already call MOUNTPROC3_UMNT/MOUNTPROC_UMNT on
>> >> > unmount of a filesystem.
>> >> >
>> >> > The problem with this approach is that if the NFS client crashes
>> >> > before
>> >> > it can call this function, then the server never gets notified. That
>> >> > is
>> >> > a problem that your patch has too...
>> >>
>> >> Yes.  Could you instead work on describing *exactly* what the original
>> >> problem was that prompted this?
>> >
>> > ("You" here meaning Namjae Jeon, of course).
>> >
>> > And note here we've all read the changelog, that's not what I'm asking
>> > for.
>> >
>> > I want to know the details of *your* specific case.  "I have X clients
>> > that I use for Y, periodically I want to unmount the exported
>> > filesystem
>> > to do Z, I tried doing W but it didn't work...".
>> As you remember, We discussed this
>> issue(http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg29997.html) with you
>> before. you guided me to use exportfs -f call on nfs server.
>> It is hard to use this method on our system
>
> Why is it hard?
Two target are connected by only nfs.. we can't manually hand exportfs -f..
And I should make each new App on client / server to call exportfs -f.
>
> Could you hack umount to do the equivalent of "exportfs -f" before
> calling the umount?
Good Idea! I will check your suggestion.

>
>> and nomally the user is
>> thinking it is problem device busy happen after umounting.
>>
>> The details of specific case.
>> 1. There are two target or two PC. and Client want to access files of
>> usb device on server.
>> 2. the client try to mount usb mount point using nfs on sever after
>> plugging usb device.
>> 3. we try to umount mount point directory on client.
>> 4. and when we try to umount usb device mount directory server, device
>> busy message occured like this (umount: can't umount /mnt: Device or
>> resource busy)
>
> Right, so I don't think you want protocol modifications.  They take a
> few years to get hammered out and then make it into implementations, and
> they won't help a great deal with your problem anyway.  (Because of
> problems like the possibility of lost "unmount" calls that Trond
> mentions.)
>
> Either modify umount itself to flush the export cache before attempting
> the unmount, or if that doesn't work perhaps you could patch the kernel
> to notify nfsd on unmount and let it attemt to clear its caches before
> deciding whether the filesystem is busy.
After checking your suggestion I will share with you.
Thanks a lot. James.
>
> --b.
>
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