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Commit 0b524123 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Trond Myklebust
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NFS: Add ability to send MOUNTPROC_UMNT to the kernel's mountd client



After certain failure modes of an NFS mount, an NFS client should send
a MOUNTPROC_UMNT request to remove the just-added mount entry from the
server's mount table.  While no-one should rely on the accuracy of the
server's mount table, sending a UMNT is simply being a good internet
neighbor.

Since NFS mount processing is handled in the kernel now, we will need
a function in the kernel's mountd client that can post a MOUNTRPC_UMNT
request, in order to handle these failure modes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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