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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount on 2 way SMP
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:28:45 -0700
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To: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>

Arun Sharma wrote:
> Ian Kent wrote:
> 
>>> It's not clear if this is a NFS issue or a autofs issue, but it's 
>>> seen often with autofs. Are there any known race conditions that have 
>>> been fixed after 2.4.20 ? The two calls I'm worried about are:
>>>
>>> fs/autofs/root.c:305:    d_instantiate(dentry, 
>>> iget(dir->i_sb,ent->ino));
>>> fs/autofs/root.c:416:    d_instantiate(dentry, iget(dir->i_sb,ino));
>>>
>> This is in the autofs (aka v3) kernel module not autofs4.
>>
> Please ignore the above lines. I corrected myself in an earlier message. 
> The problem was seen on the autofs4 kernel module in 2.4.20 + 
> autofs-3.1.7 user daemon.
> 

Please don't mix the v3 and v4 stuff (this was a misguided change on 
Linus' part which I still very much disagree with.)

	-hpa