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Date:      Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:09:55 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
To:        Martin Matuska <mm@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8.1-STABLE: problem with unmounting ZFS snapshots
Message-ID:  <4CDE7203.7090507@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CDE7133.6010803@FreeBSD.org>
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on 13/11/2010 13:06 Martin Matuska said the following:
> No, this is not good for us. Solaris does not allow "mounting" of
> snapshots on any vnode, like we do. Solaris has them only in
> .zfs/snapshots. This allows us to have read-only mounts without even
> mounting the parent zfs.
> 
> Before v15 we have been happy with that code and had no issues :-)
> 
> I have a very simple testcase where just fixing the VFS_RELE breaks our
> forced unmount. Let's say we use the correct VFS_RELE in zfs_vfsops.c:
> VFS_RELE(vfsp->mnt_vnodecovered->v_vfsp);
> 
> Now let's say you have a mounted filesystem (e.g. md) under /mnt:
> /dev/md5 on /mnt (ufs, local)
> 
> # mkdir /mnt/test
> # mount -t zfs tank@t2 /mnt/test
> # umount -f /mnt
> 
> Now you will hang because the second VFS_HOLD.

Hang here would be bad, I agree.
But I think that the umount shouldn't succeed either, in this case.

> So I stick to my opinion
> that this "extra protection" is more a problem than a solution in our
> case and it should be commented out.


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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