[autofs] different behaviour of autofs

2011-03-31 Thread hugo tempo
Hi, We (@vu.nl) use the automounter with ldap, a.o. to automount home-directories. Now under squeeze if we do a wildcard access (ls /home/* or even ls /home) we get a listing of (seemingly) all the userdirectories from the mountmap (in ldap), which are certainly not all mounted under /home on

[autofs] stat -L triggering mount (behavior change starting with 2.6.38-rc1)

2011-03-31 Thread Leonardo Chiquitto
(note: I'm resending this because it apparently didn't reach the mailing list, sorry if someone is getting it twice) Hello, After the update to 2.6.38, I noticed that AutoFS started to mount volumes at times it normally wouldn't. More specifically, ls -la inside an AutoFS mount point will

[autofs] stat -L triggering mount (behavior change starting with 2.6.38-rc1)

2011-03-31 Thread Leonardo Chiquitto
Hello, After the update to 2.6.38, I noticed that AutoFS started to mount volumes at times it normally wouldn't. More specifically, ls -la inside an AutoFS mount point will trigger the mount of all available maps. This can be reproduced with a simple indirect mount setup: # cat /etc/auto.master

Re: [autofs] different behaviour of autofs

2011-03-31 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 09:53 +0200, hugo tempo wrote: Hi, We (@vu.nl) use the automounter with ldap, a.o. to automount home-directories. Now under squeeze if we do a wildcard access (ls /home/* or even ls /home) we get a listing of (seemingly) all the userdirectories from the mountmap (in

Re: [autofs] stat -L triggering mount (behavior change starting with 2.6.38-rc1)

2011-03-31 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 19:53 -0300, Leonardo Chiquitto wrote: Hello, After the update to 2.6.38, I noticed that AutoFS started to mount volumes at times it normally wouldn't. More specifically, ls -la inside an AutoFS mount point will trigger the mount of all available maps. This can be

Re: [autofs] stat -L triggering mount (behavior change starting with 2.6.38-rc1)

2011-03-31 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 19:53 -0300, Leonardo Chiquitto wrote: Bisecting the changes between 2.6.37 and 2.6.38, I found that 2.6.38-rc1 exhibits the new behavior already. I went as near 2.6.37 as I could and verified that commit b650c858c2 (autofs4: Merge the remaining dentry ops tables) also

Re: [autofs] stat -L triggering mount (behavior change starting with 2.6.38-rc1)

2011-03-31 Thread Ian Kent
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 12:27 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 19:53 -0300, Leonardo Chiquitto wrote: There where two significant patch series merged in 2.6.38 which were to similar parts of the VFS. One was the vfs-scale series and the other was the vfs-automount series. So 2.6.38