From: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
To: James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net, jmoss@ichips.intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch] umount loopback filessystems on autofs stop
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 08:30:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <413863EA.8080602@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41383357.2000305@moving-picture.com>
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James Pearson wrote:
> Mike Waychison wrote:
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>> Joseph V Moss wrote:
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>>> Using /proc/mounts could be an issue for anyone trying to use this
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>> with a kernel
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>>> that truncates /proc/mounts.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Which kernel truncates /proc/mounts?
>>
>> Any recent kernel uses the seq_file interface which guarantees that
>> nothing gets truncated. I have a system up and running that works fine
>> with about 2500 mounts.
>
>
>
> seq_file support for /proc/mounts was introduced with 2.4.19
>
Heh, which is only over two years old :)
Seriously, if your kernel doesn't do this right, the problem doesn't lie
with Jeff's initscript patch: please consider upgrading.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-03 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-02 20:14 [patch] umount loopback filessystems on autofs stop Jeff Moyer
2004-09-02 21:20 ` Joseph V Moss
2004-09-03 2:31 ` Mike Waychison
2004-09-03 9:03 ` James Pearson
2004-09-03 12:30 ` Mike Waychison [this message]
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2004-09-03 2:46 Lever, Charles
2004-09-03 14:17 ` Jeff Moyer
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