On 19 Feb 2003, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:16, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Ion Badulescu wrote:
> > > Isn't autofs v4 supposed to fix this? I remember Jeremy mentioning that
> > > the filesystem would lock all accesses to a dentry scheduled to be
> > > unmounted until the daemon replied to the request.
> > >
> >
> > That's fine and dandy, but you would have to atomically lock *all*
> > dentries belonging to the subtree, which I suspect (but don't know for
> > sure) is impossible.
>
> I seem to have missed the rest of this thread. What's the context?
HPA was saying that autofs checks if a filesystem is busy before trying to
unmount it, but does not lock it, so that a remount request could come in
while umount is still running.
I replied with the above...
Ion
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