Re: 2.2.14pre7 NFS bug

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:39:26 +0000 (GMT)

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> Another thing I have seen is a problem with autofs (at least
> I believe it is related to autofs). Could there be a race
> condition when an access is done to a remote NFS partition exactly
> at the same time autofs attempts to umount it. When that happens,
> every access to that 'not yet mounted' partition is blocked.
> The only way to recover is to reboot the machine. Quite annoying
> with a mail server checking for .forward files...

There is. It is fixed in 2.3.18 or so. Backporting the fix is on my job
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