>From cwalker [07/22 10:20]: > 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.
Looks like git bisect only helps to find introduced bugs, but not where something got fixed. Oh well. I think we were going to upgrade to 2.6.25 anyway... :) -- Chris Walker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
