Re: Race condition in autofs 4.1.4

[Paul Smith <psmith@netezza.com>]

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:21 +0100, Lukas Kolbe wrote:
> On Mo, 2007-01-29 at 16:09 -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> 
> > I don't mean to muddy the waters, but you might try adding the patch
> > below to autofs.  I posted it a while back, but Ian's been busy with
> > v5 development.  This is from my git tree, so I'm not sure if it
> > applies to current v4 as is.
> 
> Thanks, I'll try it tomorrow. Seems reasonable to me.

Apropos of not much, on my embedded system using BusyBox I wanted to use
autofs, etc. but not install a separate mount and all that jazz; I just
made /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts and that works fine for me.

I don't do the kind of serious load via autofs/NFS you are talking
about, though; I mainly use it for handling core dumps (so they get
dumped to a central system instead of onto the embedded system).

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