Re: autofs deadlock

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
29 Aug 1999 06:29:15 GMT

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By author: Tim Ricketts <tr@oxlug.org>
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>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > I've seen autofs lockup frequently when the nfs server goes down.
> > This patch seems to fix the problem to me.
>
> It fixed it for me too. If was in most of the 2.2.12 pre patches but not
> 2.2.12 itself. Why not?
>

Because it was the wrong fix -- the real problem was a logic error in
the VFS. Linus didn't want to put it into 2.2.12 because he wanted
the fix to get some testing (it was rather subtle); it is in 2.3.15
and should be in 2.2.13.

-hpa

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