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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@badula.org>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, autofs@linux.kernel.org,
	trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, james-p@moving-picture.com
Subject: Re: Re: [autofs] Server/client mismatch over status of a mount ...
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:16:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E53C9EC.8080903@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302191358.h1JDwECX026719@buggy.badula.org>

Ion Badulescu wrote:
> 
> Isn't autofs v4 supposed to fix this? I remember Jeremy mentioning that
> the filesystem would lock all accesses to a dentry scheduled to be 
> unmounted until the daemon replied to the request.
> 

That's fine and dandy, but you would have to atomically lock *all* 
dentries belonging to the subtree, which I suspect (but don't know for 
sure) is impossible.

	-hpa



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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-19 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-17 14:06 Server/client mismatch over status of a mount James Pearson
2003-02-17 15:20 ` [autofs] " H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-17 15:50   ` Trond Myklebust
2003-02-17 15:57     ` James Pearson
2003-02-17 16:16       ` Trond Myklebust
2003-02-17 17:49         ` James Pearson
2003-02-18 16:57           ` James Pearson
2003-02-19  9:56             ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-19 10:16               ` Trond Myklebust
2003-02-19 13:58               ` Ion Badulescu
2003-02-19 18:16                 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-02-20  3:20                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2003-02-20  3:26                     ` Ion Badulescu
2003-02-20  3:43                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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