On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Ian Kent wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Robert Giles wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > And at least 2 hunks in the patch failed, right? > > > One against fs/namei.c. > > > > Right, and the other failed portion was against a configuration text file > > (Documentation/something). > > That confirms it's 2.4.27. That's correct behaviour as those particular > hunks are included in the vanila source now. > > > > > I haven't explicitly tested 2.4.25 for the same problem, but over the > > course of several months I never had a 2.4.25 machine fill up > > /var/log/syslog with these automount errors (with 2.4.27, the disk fills > > up so rapidly that folks regularly ask me why their machine doesn't have > > any space on /... basically have to "/etc/init.d/syslog stop" on these > > hosts until I can correct the problem). > > I'm building a 2.4.27 kernel now on my Sparc Ultra 1 (yep it's going to > take all day). > > I'll see what I can find out.
Still having a bit of trouble with my build. Should be sorted tonight. > > As a side note. > > >From 2.4.27 you can use the kernel module build kit without having to > rebuild your kernel. You do however need a set of kernel headers that > correspond to the running kernel. Using this you can build, install and > uninstall the updated module. > > That would be the autofs4-2.4-module-20040508.tar.gz on kernel.org. Ignore > the mandatory patches as they are the ones already in 2.4.27. > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > autofs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs > _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
