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From: Mike Marion <mmarion@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] autofs - fix AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT not being honored
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:01:53 +0000
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Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Colin Walters <walters@redhat.com>, Ondrej Holy <oholy@redhat.com>, autofs mailing list <autofs@vger.kernel.org>, Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 08:36:49AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> And with the move of userspace to use /proc based mount tables (one
> example being the symlink of /etc/mtab into /proc) even modest sized
> direct mount maps will be a problem with every entry getting mounted.
>=20
> Systems will cope with this fine but larger systems not so much.

Yes.. we've run into some big issues due to the change of /etc/mtab from
a file to a symlink to /proc/self/mounts.  Most have been worked around
thus far (mostly due to Suse coming up with patches) but still have a
few annoying ones.

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