On 27-Jan-00 Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:49:16PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>> On 25-Jan-00 Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
>> > 2.2.13 + http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/autofs/autofs-2.2.14-20000123.diff
>> > userland:
>> > http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/autofs/autofs/autofs-4.0.0-pre1.tar.gz
>> >
>> > First, this is cool. Tree-mounts are very useful and this version seems
>> > more
>> > stable.
>>
>> What version are you comparing it to?
> 2.2.10-ac11
>
> In case you're wondering why: almost no 2.2.x kernel is usable (at my
> work) because they all suffer from an NFS client bug which is fixed by
> Trond's patch I'm using in 2.2.13. Without this patch, redirecting setuid
> program output to an NFS mounted FS fails: data is discarded because I/O
> is done with the credentials of the calling process (e.g. setuid root)
> instead of the opener of the file.
Well, my patches do nothing to the behaviour of NFS. Are you saying that
autofs 4 is more stable than a previous version of autofs with 2.2.x?
J
