Re: any idea about auto export multiple btrfs snapshots?

On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, Wang Yugui wrote:

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Can we go back to the beginning.  What, exactly, is the problem you are
trying to solve?  How can you demonstrate the problem?

NeilBrown

I nfs/exported a btrfs with 2 subvols and 2 snapshot(subvol).

# btrfs subvolume list /mnt/test
ID 256 gen 53 top level 5 path sub1
ID 260 gen 56 top level 5 path sub2
ID 261 gen 57 top level 5 path .snapshot/sub1-s1
ID 262 gen 57 top level 5 path .snapshot/sub2-s1

and then mount.nfs4 it to /nfs/test.

# /bin/find /nfs/test/
/nfs/test/
find: File system loop detected; '/nfs/test/sub1' is part of the same file system loop as '/nfs/test/'.
/nfs/test/.snapshot
find: File system loop detected; '/nfs/test/.snapshot/sub1-s1' is part of the same file system loop as '/nfs/test/'.
find: File system loop detected; '/nfs/test/.snapshot/sub2-s1' is part of the same file system loop as '/nfs/test/'.
/nfs/test/dir1
/nfs/test/dir1/a.txt
find: File system loop detected; '/nfs/test/sub2' is part of the same file system loop as '/nfs/test/'

/bin/find report 'File system loop detected'. so I though there is
something wrong.

Certainly something is wrong.  The error message implies that some
directory is reporting the same dev an ino as an ancestor directory.
Presumably /nfs/test and /nfs/test/sub1.
Can you confirm that please. e.g. run the command

   stat /nfs/test /nfs/test/sub1

and examine the output.

As sub1 is considered a different file system, it should have a
different dev number.  NFS will assign a different device number only
when the server reports a different fsid.  The Linux NFS server will
report a different fsid if d_mountpoint() is 'true' for the dentry, and
follow_down() results in no change the the vfsmnt,dentry in a 'struct
path'.

You have already said that d_mountpoint doesn't work for btrfs, so that
is part of the problem.  NFSD doesn't trust d_mountpoint completely as
it only reports that the dentry is a mountpoint in some namespace, not
necessarily in this namespace.  So you really need to fix
nfsd_mountpoint.

I suggest you try adding your "dirty fix" to nfsd_mountpoint() so that
it reports the root of a btrfs subvol as a mountpoint, and see if that
fixes the problem.  It should change the problem at least.  You would
need to get nfsd_mountpoint() to return '1' in this case, not '2'.

NeilBrown