From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - zero timeout prevents shutdown
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:38:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060918213853.d4628ba0.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158640433.3003.20.camel@raven.themaw.net>
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:33:52 +0800
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 21:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:48:15 +0800 (WST)
> > Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> >
> > > If the timeout of an autofs mount is set to zero then umounts
> > > are disabled. This works fine, however the kernel module checks
> > > the expire timeout and goes no further if it is zero. This is
> > > not the right thing to do at shutdown as the module is passed
> > > an option to expire mounts regardless of their timeout setting.
> >
> > Is this a new feature, or a regression since <when>?
>
> It's a regression which I must have introduced a long time ago. I can go
> back and check the kernels if you'd like more specific info.
>
> It should work this way and a recent report alerted me to it.
>
Well.. I'm trying to work out if it's a 2.6.18 thing or whether we can
hold it over.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-19 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-19 3:48 [PATCH] autofs4 - zero timeout prevents shutdown Ian Kent
2006-09-19 4:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-19 4:33 ` Ian Kent
2006-09-19 4:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-09-19 4:55 ` Ian Kent
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