1 Support is available for filesystems that wish to do automounting
2 support (such as kAFS which can be found in fs/afs/ and NFS in
3 fs/nfs/). This facility includes allowing in-kernel mounts to be
4 performed and mountpoint degradation to be requested. The latter can
5 also be requested by userspace.
10 ======================
12 See section "Mount Traps" of Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt
14 Then from userspace, you can just do something like:
16 [root@andromeda root]# mount -t afs \#root.afs. /afs
17 [root@andromeda root]# ls /afs
18 asd cambridge cambridge.redhat.com grand.central.org
19 [root@andromeda root]# ls /afs/cambridge
21 [root@andromeda root]# ls /afs/cambridge/afsdoc/
22 ChangeLog html LICENSE pdf RELNOTES-1.2.2
24 And then if you look in the mountpoint catalogue, you'll see something like:
26 [root@andromeda root]# cat /proc/mounts
28 #root.afs. /afs afs rw 0 0
29 #root.cell. /afs/cambridge.redhat.com afs rw 0 0
30 #afsdoc. /afs/cambridge.redhat.com/afsdoc afs rw 0 0
33 ===========================
34 AUTOMATIC MOUNTPOINT EXPIRY
35 ===========================
37 Automatic expiration of mountpoints is easy, provided you've mounted the
38 mountpoint to be expired in the automounting procedure outlined separately.
40 To do expiration, you need to follow these steps:
42 (1) Create at least one list off which the vfsmounts to be expired can be
45 (2) When a new mountpoint is created in the ->d_automount method, add
46 the mnt to the list using mnt_set_expiry()
47 mnt_set_expiry(newmnt, &afs_vfsmounts);
49 (3) When you want mountpoints to be expired, call mark_mounts_for_expiry()
50 with a pointer to this list. This will process the list, marking every
51 vfsmount thereon for potential expiry on the next call.
53 If a vfsmount was already flagged for expiry, and if its usage count is 1
54 (it's only referenced by its parent vfsmount), then it will be deleted
55 from the namespace and thrown away (effectively unmounted).
57 It may prove simplest to simply call this at regular intervals, using
58 some sort of timed event to drive it.
60 The expiration flag is cleared by calls to mntput. This means that expiration
61 will only happen on the second expiration request after the last time the
62 mountpoint was accessed.
64 If a mountpoint is moved, it gets removed from the expiration list. If a bind
65 mount is made on an expirable mount, the new vfsmount will not be on the
66 expiration list and will not expire.
68 If a namespace is copied, all mountpoints contained therein will be copied,
69 and the copies of those that are on an expiration list will be added to the
73 =======================
74 USERSPACE DRIVEN EXPIRY
75 =======================
77 As an alternative, it is possible for userspace to request expiry of any
78 mountpoint (though some will be rejected - the current process's idea of the
79 rootfs for example). It does this by passing the MNT_EXPIRE flag to
80 umount(). This flag is considered incompatible with MNT_FORCE and MNT_DETACH.
82 If the mountpoint in question is in referenced by something other than
83 umount() or its parent mountpoint, an EBUSY error will be returned and the
84 mountpoint will not be marked for expiration or unmounted.
86 If the mountpoint was not already marked for expiry at that time, an EAGAIN
87 error will be given and it won't be unmounted.
89 Otherwise if it was already marked and it wasn't referenced, unmounting will
92 Again, the expiration flag is cleared every time anything other than umount()
93 looks at a mountpoint.