On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:26:09 +0800 Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Due to a change to fs/dcache.c:d_lookup() in the 2.6 kernel whereby only > hashed dentrys are returned the negative caching of mount failures > stopped working in the autofs4 module for nobrowse mount (ie. directory > created at mount time and removed at umount or following a mount > failure). > > This patch keeps track of the dentrys from mount fails in order to be > able check the timeout since the last fail and return the appropriate > status. In addition the timeout value is settable at load time as a > module option and via sysfs using the module > parameter /sys/module/autofs4/parameters/negative_timeout. Boy, that's a complex-looking patch. I think I'll sit on this one for 2.6.24 ;) It seems to use a lot of list_for_each[_safe] which could have been coded as list_for_each_entry[_safe], btw. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
