>> Three years ago, commit 2d753e62b8 removed kernel-side caching >> of mount attempts that returns -ENOENT. Apparently it wasn't >> working as it should. > > It stopped working when 2.6 was released due to changes in the VFS. > These changes made it extremely hard to do in the kernel module. Efforts > to do it in the kernel module have been abandoned at this stage.
Thanks for the details. > I guess that's what it amounts to, since all the effort is going into v5. > > I have a bunch of patches for v4 from Jeff Moyer that I've not got > around to looking closely at and applying. We didn't get as far as the > negative lookup caching patch though. In fact I don't think it had been > written then. I just checked that Jeff implemented it for RHEL 4. I'll take a look. > What version of autofs? autofs-4.1.4 > Do you have any other patches applied to it? Yes, I have all patches released after 4.1.4 (SLES 10 autofs package). Thanks, Leonardo _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
