On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 12:15 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Ian,
> > 
> > I bisected this problem today and discovered that it appeared after the
> > following commit:
> > 
> > commit 08aafab4c1d0ab6227c80f8cd1086ae78556a370
> > Author: Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net>
> > Date:   Thu Sep 9 11:10:47 2010 +0800
> > 
> >     autofs-5.0.5 - fix direct map not updating on reread
> > 
> >     If the map type is explicitly specified for a map the map isn't
> >     properly updated when a re-read is requested. This is because
> >     the map stale flag is incorrectly cleared after after the lookup
> >     module reads the map instead of at the completion of the update
> >     procedure. The map stale flag should only be cleared if the map
> >     read fails for some reason, otherwise it is updated when the
> >     refresh is completed.
> > 
> > Does this ring a bell? If not, I'll see if I can debug it further tomorrow.
> 
> Not really.
> I'm still not sure your original patch deals with the problem fully.
> 
> Could you also have a look at and try (from kernel.org):
> autofs-5.0.5-fix-prune-cache-valid-check.patch

Although, looking again, maybe we need both patches.

> 
> Ian
> 


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