Hi Ian, Thanks for the quick reply. And what is the answer to the first question please (regarding lstat & wildcard entry)? :-) It is not he same case I guess.... Many thanks,
Ondrej Ian Kent wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 12:30 +0100, Ondrej Valousek wrote: > >> Probably to Ian: >> I am just looking in the autofs5 (from RHEL5) source. I have an indirect >> nis map: >> auto.master: >> /appli auto.appli >> /proj auto.proj >> >> Now, auto.proj contains a wildcard entry (* nfsserver:/share/&) but >> auto.appli does not. >> >> 1. Every time I try to enter (shortly after each other) >> /proj/nonexistent_directory, I got this: >> Dec 5 12:10:45 ara automount[3101]: rmdir_path: lstat of >> /proj/nonexistent_directory failed >> ... why did not the negative cache save us the expensive call to lstat? >> >> >> 2. Every time I try to enter (shortly after each other) >> /appli/nonexistent_directory, I got this: >> Dec 5 12:11:41 ara automount[3101]: lookup_mount: lookup(yp): key >> "nonexistent" not found in map >> ... again, looks like the nis daemon was consulted but the negative >> cache should take the place. >> > > Known bug with v5 handling of negative caching of non-existent keys. > I'm working on it but it is proving a little bit tricky because of > possible multiple map sources listed in nsswitch.conf (at least that's > where I'm currently at). > > >> Maybe I do not understand the concept of negative caching well.... >> > > No .. you got it right .. I missed it. > > Another thing, there are quite a few changes going into RHEL-5.3 autofs > which will make their way into RHEL-4.8 in due course. Hopefully you > will not get caught by them but it is worth logging calls for issues in > case you are seeing a known issue. > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
