On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:00 -0400, Dan Halbert wrote: > Jeff Moyer wrote: > > I was able to reproduce it. It turns out that I had a kernel > > installed that had a fix for the following bug: > > Bugzilla Bug 248126: autofs problem with symbolic links > > > > When I moved to the exact kernel you were running, I hit the problem. > > So, it's a known issue, and it had better be addressed in the next > > update (kernel 2.6.9-61.EL). > > > Thanks! You saved me from a module rebuild, which I have not done in > quite a few years. > > I had searched the existing bugs and seen 248126, but it did not seem to > me that I could have had a simultaneous expire, since we have such long > timeouts on the automounts (usually --timeout=86400). But I must have > misunderstood what "expire" means in this case.
Yes, that's a bit puzzling. > > Also, from 248126 and the bug it references, 174821, it appeared that > these patches were already incorporated into my kernel 2.6.9-55.0.9-smp > (248126 comment #24 mentions 55.0.7, for instance). But apparently not! The patch was reverted in this revision. I'm not sure why. > > Is this bug non-existent in the latest updated RHEL5.0? I am trying to > think of a workaround until 2.6.9-61 comes out. We have a tried cron job > to provoke the automount more often than its timeout, but I am not sure > that would solve the problem. I'd need to check but I believe the patch is present in the RHEL5 kernel (but I think there are a couple of corrections missing). You could apply the patch(es) yourself. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
