Messages in this thread | | | From | Tvrtko Ursulin <> | Subject | Re: Change in behaviour when unmounting recursive bind mounts | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:29:47 +0000 |
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On Thursday 28 March 2013 23:35:49 Ram Pai wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:05:56PM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thursday 28 March 2013 11:03:51 Ram Pai wrote: > > > I tried these commands on a 3.8.0-rc1+ kernel and did not find the > > > problem. Is this on a recent kernel? > > > > I am on Fedora 17 latest, but I've seen this problem with different > > kernels. Pretty sure from 3.5 something to 3.8 something. All Fedora > > flavoured. I will try vanilla soon. > > > > What I am not sure is whether this behaviour was there from the start (on > > Fedora 17). I *think* it started to happen later on, which would mean a > > potential userland change somehow causes it. > > > > Would that be at all possible with some mechanism? > > > > > > Previously unmounting the recursive bind target would not unmount the > > > > source, which to me looks like a more sensible outcome. > > > > > > yes. it should not unless they are peer-mounts, which in your case is > > > not. > > > > What are these and how to create them? > > These are mounts that are created by marking mount as shared, followed > by bind mount, followed by submount and then unmount. > > Documentation/filesystem/sharedsubtree.txt has the details.
Knowing the right keywords certainly enabled me to hunt it down, thanks!
Culprit is systemd as per following commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=b3ac5f8cb98757416d8660023d6564a7c411f0a0
Regards,
Tvrtko
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