From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Leonardo Chiquitto <leonardo.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AutoFS creates unmountable directories when ghosting is enabled
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:21:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299644461.3037.16.camel@perseus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299644155.3037.15.camel@perseus>
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 12:15 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> >
> > Hello Ian,
> >
> > I bisected this problem today and discovered that it appeared after the
> > following commit:
> >
> > commit 08aafab4c1d0ab6227c80f8cd1086ae78556a370
> > Author: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
> > Date: Thu Sep 9 11:10:47 2010 +0800
> >
> > autofs-5.0.5 - fix direct map not updating on reread
> >
> > If the map type is explicitly specified for a map the map isn't
> > properly updated when a re-read is requested. This is because
> > the map stale flag is incorrectly cleared after after the lookup
> > module reads the map instead of at the completion of the update
> > procedure. The map stale flag should only be cleared if the map
> > read fails for some reason, otherwise it is updated when the
> > refresh is completed.
> >
> > Does this ring a bell? If not, I'll see if I can debug it further tomorrow.
>
> Not really.
> I'm still not sure your original patch deals with the problem fully.
>
> Could you also have a look at and try (from kernel.org):
> autofs-5.0.5-fix-prune-cache-valid-check.patch
Although, looking again, maybe we need both patches.
>
> Ian
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-09 4:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-10 19:10 AutoFS creates unmountable directories when ghosting is enabled Leonardo Chiquitto
2010-12-15 2:49 ` Ian Kent
2011-03-07 2:37 ` Leonardo Chiquitto
2011-03-09 4:15 ` Ian Kent
2011-03-09 4:21 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2011-03-09 14:09 ` Leonardo Chiquitto
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