(I sent this so the NFS lists too since it's an autofs/NFS specific
interaction that I'm having.)
I remember mention of a VFS layer bug which affects autofs (among
other things) in kernel versions 2.2.x and 2.3.x, and which had been
fixed in the 2.3.x kernels (somewhere around 2.3.14 or 2.3.16 or so)
and that it would possibly be backported to 2.2.x.
Since I believe that I'm being bitten by this bug (which I'll describe
below) I was wondering if there was any word of the status of the VFS
fix for 2.2.x kernels? (Since I require a 2.2.x kernel, it would be
nice for it to not hang on me when my network goes belly up for a few
seconds at a critical time. :) )
The bug I see is that autofs will hang and require a reboot of the
client if the client receives RPC timeouts or the NFS server not
responding during the automount of an NFS filesystem. There was a
patch out there that was an improper workaround (which could cause
other problems) for the VFS bug, and applying that patch "kinda" fixes
this specific problem - the client no longer requires a reboot, but
you need to stop the user level automouters, unmount all automounted
stuff by hand and restart the automounters, and then everything is
fine again (until it happens again.)
Thanks!
-- Steve McClure
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