Hey guys,

I have been running some tests against the 271 release, and I am having some
trouble with multiple mounts on one client.  My setup has 2 servers (both
meta and io servers on local disk) and one client all of which are running
RHEL4 update 6. All that was done on the test client is loading the kernel
module and starting pvfs2-client.  I can mount the file system once and use
it without any problem, but I have attached a test script - takes file
system information and a number of times to mount it - that keeps failing.
Here are the steps it executes:

- For the number of mounts requested
   - Create a new directory (defaults to /tmp/mount_limit.#)
   - Mount the specified file system on the new dir

- For the number of mounts requested
   - Do a recursive ls comparison (keep a copy the first time through and
compare subsequent mounts to the first)
   - Unmount the dir
   - Delete the dir

I have been able to consistently reproduce the problem running the attached
script like this:
./test-mount-limit.pl pvfs2-server1:3334/pvfs2-fs 100
It stalls every time with either 36 or 37 mounts remaining.  The script has
been successfully run on previous versions of pvfs2 up to several thousand
mounts.

The problem comes at the umount step.  Eventually the process just hangs,
strands a bunch of mounts, and umount doesn't work as expected after that
even from the command line.  When it stalls, I start seeing messages like
this one in dmesg and syslog:
May  2 15:02:44 client-node kernel: pvfs2_kill_sb: (WARNING) number of inode
allocs (4100) != number of inode deallocs (2665)

I am running this against an almost empty file system since the recursive ls
would take a while if it were large. Am I doing something wrong/strange
here, or is there a client/kernel problem? The test seems pretty
straight-forward, and I've never had an issue with the script before. I'm
not sure if it was run against the 2.7.0 release though.

Bart.

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