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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/autofs-mount-control.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs-mount-control.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs-mount-control.txt index 45edad6933cc..acc02fc57993 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs-mount-control.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs-mount-control.txt @@ -354,8 +354,10 @@ this ioctl is called until no further expire candidates are found. The call requires an initialized struct autofs_dev_ioctl with the ioctlfd field set to the descriptor obtained from the open call. In -addition an immediate expire, independent of the mount timeout, can be -requested by setting the how field of struct args_expire to 1. If no +addition an immediate expire that's independent of the mount timeout, +and a forced expire that's independent of whether the mount is busy, +can be requested by setting the how field of struct args_expire to +AUTOFS_EXP_IMMEDIATE or AUTOFS_EXP_FORCED, respectively . If no expire candidates can be found the ioctl returns -1 with errno set to EAGAIN. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt index 8fe43c97cb96..409e6411904d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs.txt @@ -410,6 +410,11 @@ The available ioctl commands are: **AUTOFS_EXP_IMMEDIATE** causes `last_used` time to be ignored and objects are expired if the are not in use. + **AUTOFS_EXP_FORCED** causes the in use status to be ignored + and objects are expired ieven if they are in use. This assumes + that the daemon has requested this because it is capable of + performing the umount. + **AUTOFS_EXP_LEAVES** will select a leaf rather than a top-level name to expire. This is only safe when *maxproto* is 4. |