From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: autofs4 looks up wrong path element when ghosting is enabled
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:33:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17254.252.746357.935671@segfault.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510291536320.2949@donald.themaw.net>
==> Regarding Re: autofs4 looks up wrong path element when ghosting is enabled; Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> adds:
raven> So to resolve this we need to ignore negative and unhashed dentries
raven> when checking if directory dentry is empty.
>>
raven> Please test this patch and let me know how you go.
>> OK, I've finally got 'round to testing your patch. It does fix the test
>> case I was using. My only concern is the potential for regressions.
>> I'll try making sure all of my various maps still work as advertised.
raven> I've spotted a regression with this patch. It doesn't stop autofs
raven> from appearing to function correctly. It causes mount callbacks when
raven> they shouldn't made. So it seems that there is a case when an autofs
raven> directory is, as yet unhashed, but should be used.
I'm not sure I follow. What do you mean it doesn't stop autofs from
*appearing* to function correctly? Do you have a reproducer that fails?
-Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-31 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-20 19:02 Jeff Moyer
2005-09-21 1:25 ` Ian Kent
2005-09-22 21:09 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-09-24 8:59 ` Ian Kent
2005-09-24 20:51 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-09-25 1:25 ` Ian Kent
2005-09-26 15:14 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-09-27 4:21 ` Ian Kent
2005-09-26 20:57 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-09-27 4:34 ` Ian Kent
2005-10-08 5:43 ` Ian Kent
2005-10-08 12:50 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-10-09 4:29 ` Ian Kent
2005-10-15 12:30 ` Ian Kent
2005-10-19 20:49 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-10-20 0:50 ` Ian Kent
2005-10-29 7:42 ` Ian Kent
2005-10-31 11:33 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2005-10-31 13:27 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-05 9:50 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2005-11-10 23:51 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-11-11 14:53 ` Ian Kent
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