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From: Mike Marion <mmarion@qualcomm.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] autofs - fix AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT not being honored
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:01:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171127160147.GA27613@qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864efc64-c430-a862-3e98-fe5ce2535329@themaw.net>

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.
> 
> 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.

-- 
Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Sr. Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-27 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-10  4:18 [PATCH 1/3] autofs - make disc device user accessible Ian Kent
2017-05-10  4:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] autofs - make dev ioctl version and ismountpoint " Ian Kent
2017-05-10  4:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] autofs - fix AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT not being honored Ian Kent
2017-05-12 12:49   ` Colin Walters
2017-11-21  1:53   ` NeilBrown
2017-11-22  4:28     ` Ian Kent
2017-11-23  0:36       ` Ian Kent
2017-11-23  2:21         ` NeilBrown
2017-11-23  2:46           ` Ian Kent
2017-11-23  3:04             ` Ian Kent
2017-11-23  4:49             ` NeilBrown
2017-11-23  6:34               ` Ian Kent
2017-11-27 16:01         ` Mike Marion [this message]
2017-11-27 23:43           ` Ian Kent
2017-11-28  0:29             ` Mike Marion
2017-11-29  1:17               ` NeilBrown
2017-11-29  2:13                 ` Mike Marion
2017-11-29  2:28                   ` Ian Kent
2017-11-29  2:48                     ` NeilBrown
2017-11-29  3:14                       ` Ian Kent
2017-11-29  2:56                 ` Ian Kent
2017-11-29  3:45                   ` NeilBrown
2017-11-29  6:00                     ` Ian Kent
2017-11-29  7:39                       ` NeilBrown
2017-11-30  0:00                         ` Ian Kent
2017-11-29 16:51                       ` Mike Marion
2017-11-23  0:47       ` NeilBrown
2017-11-23  1:43         ` Ian Kent
2017-11-23  2:26           ` Ian Kent
2017-11-23  3:04           ` NeilBrown
2017-11-23  3:41             ` Ian Kent

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