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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [announce] vfs-scale git tree update
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:14:14 +1100
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 12:01 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> Hm, what are the concurrencies that you need protection from?
>
> Ha, I think I'm wrong about this, after looking more closely at this I'm
> struggling to see why autofs4_lock is needed at all.

Well you did send me a series of patches to remove it, but
unfortunately that was just as you made some larger changes
to autofs4 upstream and I wasn't able to keep them up to date.

It would be much appreciated if you had time to take another
look at all the locking and streamline it.

Thanks,
Nick