From: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
autofs@linux.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [autofs] Re: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount on 2 way SMP
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:57:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030918195749.A2273@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309151828050.1920-100000@fubar.phlinux.com>; from wago@phlinux.com on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:34:33PM -0700
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:34:33PM -0700, Matt C wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Arun Sharma wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Oh yeah, easily. Kill the automounter while some things are mounted,
> > > >> unmount everything by hand but do not rmdir the mountpoints. When you
> > > >> unmount the autofs filesystem itself, you will get the self destruct
> > > >> message.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks. This reproduces the problem I'm chasing very well. I think this
> > > > is clearly an unacceptable kernel bug.
> > > >
> > > Indeed. This is on autofs 3?
> >
> > Both 3 and 4, at least as far as the "self-destruct" message goes.
>
> Don't know if it helps, but we also run a few hundred autofs4 clients,
> with a mix of 2.4.21 and 2.4.18. The 2.4.21 machines are seeing quite a
> few of these messages, but not on the 2.4.18 machines. We haven't seen any
> of the oopses described below, though.
Same here, 2.4.22, autofs 3 and 4. I'll be playing with 2.6.0 next week.
I haven't tried to reproduce it with your method, but I do see the bug;
no oops though.
/fc
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2003-09-16 1:34 ` [autofs] Re: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount on 2 way SMP Matt C
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