vfs_busy(9)

vfs_busy9

Marks a mount point as busy

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/mount.h>

int

vfs_busy(struct mount *mp, int flags);

Overview

The vfs_busy() function marks a mount point as busy by incrementing the reference count of a mount point. It also delays unmounting by sleeping on mp if the MNTK_UNMOUNT flag is set in mp->mnt_kern_flag and the MBF_NOWAIT flag is not set.

Its arguments are:

mp

The mount point to busy.

flags

Flags controlling how vfs_busy() should act.

MBF_NOWAIT

do not sleep if MNTK_UNMOUNT is set.

MBF_MNTLSTLOCK

drop the mountlist_mtx in the critical path.

Return values

A 0 value is returned on success. If the mount point is being unmounted and MBF_NOWAIT flag is specified ENOENT will be returned.

Errors

[ENOENT]

The mount point is being unmounted (MNTK_UNMOUNT is set).

Releases

56 releases since FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 5.0–5.1
  2. 5.2–6.3
  3. 6.4
  4. 7.0
  5. 7.1
  6. 7.2
  7. 7.3
  8. 7.4
  9. 8.0
  10. 8.1
  11. 8.2
  12. 8.3
  13. 8.4
  14. 9.0
  15. 9.1
  16. 9.2
  17. 9.3
  18. 10.0
  19. 10.1
  20. 10.2
  21. 10.3
  22. 10.4
  23. 11.0
  24. 11.1
  25. 11.2
  26. 11.3
  27. 11.4
  28. 12.0
  29. 12.1
  30. 12.2
  31. 12.3
  32. 12.4
  33. 13.0–13.2
  34. 13.3–16.0

Authors

This manual page was written by Chad David ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.