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
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