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Date:      Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:38:08 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: panic when mounting device >= 2 times
Message-ID:  <20091016083808.GO27077@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4AD82F80.2050302@icyb.net.ua>
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:32:00AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 14/10/2009 23:46 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following:
> > I've this patch that is suppose to fix it:
> >=20
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/geom_vfs.c.patch
> >=20
> > But AFAIR its not complete. I think it is still possible to remount one
> > of the read-only mounts to read-write.
> >=20
> > Another possibility that comes to my mind is to keep list/array of
> > consumers in bo_private instead of using one consumer only. This would
> > be better in terms of access management.
>=20
> This looks very good for at least preventing the most common accidents.
> I've been thinking about something like creating a cloned vnode for the d=
evice
> vnode and giving a private copy to each filesystem. But I currently lack =
a lot
> knowledge in this area, so I can't even say if it could be feasible, let =
alone
> implement it.

I suspect this is pretty much bad idea. The reason is that buffer list is
managed by buffer object that has 1:1 correspondence with the vnode.
You will end up with aliased buffers.

Actually, this could happen without the proposed change as well, I believe.
It is enough to mount devfs several times and then use different devfs
vnodes for the same device. But since people usually mount filesystems
using /dev, this does not happen in practice.

For multiple ro mounts to work, we need to find a way to push the buffer
object to cdev.

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