Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:47:43 -0600
From: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>
To: "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Get normalized paths for comparing NFS export paths
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Steve Dickson [SteveD@redhat.com] wrote:
> 
> > Which is why I'm asking you if you can't copy from /proc/mounts. Distros
> > which already have a symlink betweek /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts don't
> > have any of these problems...
> > 
> Personally I think it simpler to just normalize the paths before 
> writing it to the mtab verses open up and searching /proc/mounts
> esp on client where there is large amount of mounts...  

We always open up and search /proc/mounts today for the matching
mountpoint to know the exact version of nfs, right? The umount time
normalization is going to cost us? Or you proposing a patch that is
going to avoid opening up /proc/mounts altogether?

Regards, Malahal.