On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Jeff Moyer wrote: > ==> Regarding Re: [autofs] Limit on return string from program map; Jeff > Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds: > > ==> Regarding Re: [autofs] Limit on return string from program map; Ian Kent > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds: > raven> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Keith Owens wrote: > >>> Kernel 2.6.9, autofs v4 as a module, autofs-4.1.3-28 (FC3). I added > >>> "/net /etc/auto.net" to /etc/auto.master and it works fine, up to a > >>> point. ps shows > >>> > >>> /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /net program /etc/auto.net > >>> > >>> If the target server has a lot of mounted filesystems then automount > >>> will only mount the first few entries on the list. Then it tries to > >>> run mount with invalid input. It looks like there is a hard coded > >>> limit on the string that automount expects from a program map. My > >>> virtual CD server has lots of CD images mounted over loopback, each > >>> with its own export entry, so the return string from auto.net is quite > >>> long. > > raven> The buffer size for map entries is 4096. > > jmoyer> I think I posted a patch here that would extend that? I can't seem > jmoyer> to find it in the archives, so I'll repost. This is the version of > jmoyer> the patch that is in our tree, so no guarantees about it applying > jmoyer> to Ian's tree. *sigh* (patch originally done by from Neil Horman) > > jmoyer> Ian, when is 4.1.4 coming out. ;-) > > Bah, and it was just pointed out to me that this patch adds a bug. I'll > repost the patch when the bug is fixed. (see red hat bz #138994). > > No ETA just yet.
OK. I think I've already merge the above patch. I'll look forward to the fix. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
