>From raven [07/21 00:39]: > > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 22:50 -0700, Chris Walker wrote: > > From jonathan [07/20 22:08]: > > > P.S. Chris, can you reliably demonstrate the not waiting for the mount > > > problem? > > > > I can, but I'm a few revs back. I'll see if I can replicate on current > > revs of linux and autofs. > > It should be reproducible on any version of autofs and any kernel, if I > understand correctly what is causing it. But, the real gotcha is stat(2) > or statfs(2) are often accompanied by other system calls that will wait > for the mount to complete. The mount can complete sometimes before but > also sometimes after, and possibly independent of system call order (due > to scheduling) so the problem should be intermittent and appear > unpredictable.
I cannot reproduce this on fedora 9 (kernel: 2.6.25.6, autofs: autofs-5.0.3). Maybe I'll do some git bisecting to see where it got fixed. -- Chris Walker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
