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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst index 33d588a01ace..0e98edd353b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst @@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ struct which has the following members: to find potential names, and matches inode numbers to find the correct match. + flags + Some filesystems may need to be handled differently than others. The + export_operations struct also includes a flags field that allows the + filesystem to communicate such information to nfsd. See the Export + Operations Flags section below for more explanation. A filehandle fragment consists of an array of 1 or more 4byte words, together with a one byte "type". @@ -163,3 +168,50 @@ generated by encode_fh, in which case it will have been padded with nuls. Rather, the encode_fh routine should choose a "type" which indicates the decode_fh how much of the filehandle is valid, and how it should be interpreted. + +Export Operations Flags +----------------------- +In addition to the operation vector pointers, struct export_operations also +contains a "flags" field that allows the filesystem to communicate to nfsd +that it may want to do things differently when dealing with it. The +following flags are defined: + + EXPORT_OP_NOWCC - disable NFSv3 WCC attributes on this filesystem + RFC 1813 recommends that servers always send weak cache consistency + (WCC) data to the client after each operation. The server should + atomically collect attributes about the inode, do an operation on it, + and then collect the attributes afterward. This allows the client to + skip issuing GETATTRs in some situations but means that the server + is calling vfs_getattr for almost all RPCs. On some filesystems + (particularly those that are clustered or networked) this is expensive + and atomicity is difficult to guarantee. This flag indicates to nfsd + that it should skip providing WCC attributes to the client in NFSv3 + replies when doing operations on this filesystem. Consider enabling + this on filesystems that have an expensive ->getattr inode operation, + or when atomicity between pre and post operation attribute collection + is impossible to guarantee. + + EXPORT_OP_NOSUBTREECHK - disallow subtree checking on this fs + Many NFS operations deal with filehandles, which the server must then + vet to ensure that they live inside of an exported tree. When the + export consists of an entire filesystem, this is trivial. nfsd can just + ensure that the filehandle live on the filesystem. When only part of a + filesystem is exported however, then nfsd must walk the ancestors of the + inode to ensure that it's within an exported subtree. This is an + expensive operation and not all filesystems can support it properly. + This flag exempts the filesystem from subtree checking and causes + exportfs to get back an error if it tries to enable subtree checking + on it. + + EXPORT_OP_CLOSE_BEFORE_UNLINK - always close cached files before unlinking + On some exportable filesystems (such as NFS) unlinking a file that + is still open can cause a fair bit of extra work. For instance, + the NFS client will do a "sillyrename" to ensure that the file + sticks around while it's still open. When reexporting, that open + file is held by nfsd so we usually end up doing a sillyrename, and + then immediately deleting the sillyrenamed file just afterward when + the link count actually goes to zero. Sometimes this delete can race + with other operations (for instance an rmdir of the parent directory). + This flag causes nfsd to close any open files for this inode _before_ + calling into the vfs to do an unlink or a rename that would replace + an existing file. |