Re: [fuse-devel] NFS exporting

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> > I don't see that you increase ->nlookup after a
> > successful ILOOKUP
> > operation.  Maybe that's causing the problem.
> > 
> 
> the ILOOKUP operation uses fuse_iget after we get the
> attributes from userspace.  fuse_iget will increase
> nlookup.

Right, I missed that.

> One difference between other filesystems and FUSE is
> that FUSE is not device-backed.  Could that be an
> issue?

Lots of other filesystems are not device-backed: all network
filesystems, ramfs, tmpfs, proc, etc.  But some of them surely support
NFS exporting.

I don't know what is causing leaked inodes, but the key is probably in
those export methods.

Miklos