[Devel] RE: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference from blocklayout routines

[Myklebust, Trond]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tao.peng at emc.com [mailto:tao.peng at emc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:40 AM
> To: skinsbursky at parallels.com
> Cc: Myklebust, Trond; linux-nfs at vger.kernel.org; xemul at parallels.com;
> neilb at suse.de; netdev at vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
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> Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference
> from blocklayout routines
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stanislav Kinsbursky [mailto:skinsbursky at parallels.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:19 PM
> > To: Peng, Tao
> > Cc: Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com; linux-nfs at vger.kernel.org; Pavel
> > Emelianov; neilb at suse.de; netdev at vger.kernel.org;
> > linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; James Bottomley; bfields at fieldses.org;
> > davem at davemloft.net; devel at openvz.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] NFS: remove RPC PipeFS mount point reference
> > from blocklayout routines
> >
> > 29.11.2011 16:00, tao.peng at emc.com пишет:
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: linux-nfs-owner at vger.kernel.org
> > >> [mailto:linux-nfs-owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of
> > Stanislav
> > >> Kinsbursky
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 6:11 PM
> > >> To: Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com
> > >> Cc: linux-nfs at vger.kernel.org; xemul at parallels.com; neilb at suse.de;
> > >> netdev at vger.kernel.org; linux- kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> > >> jbottomley at parallels.com; bfields at fieldses.org;
> > >> davem at davemloft.net; devel at 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?

Trond