Simon Liddington wrote:
>
>H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> Steve Mcclure wrote:
>> >
>> > (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
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> I have asked Linus to forward this fix to Alan. I don't know if he
>> has, yet.
>
>> Be careful with the "patch" - it may cause silent data corruption, I
>> believe.
>
>Has anything come of this?
>I get bitten by this problem regularly. Whenever one of our machines
>which has an automounted home directory on it is powered down for any
>length of time this happens to me. The automounter is trying to mount
>the home directory for sendmail/procmail and it eventually gets RPC
>timeouts and I end up with more than one automount program running on
>the same mount point!! This is really a major problem. I should be
>able to power down a machine without it messing up the main server and
>it needing a reboot.
>
>TIA.
>
>Yours desperately,
>Simon
I haven't heard anything yet either, I was hoping I would. Can I ask
what the status is as well, I could really use it...
-- Steve McClure
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
