Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Sep 1996 23:03:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: patch-2.0.1[67] kills automount daemon (Berkeley amd) |
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automounting mail is pretty silly IMHO..... this is how you get stale NFS file handles..... and god knows what NFS wants to do with them :)
--Jauder
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Systemkennung Linux wrote:
> > > I'm going to release a 2.0.18 reasonably soon, but in the meantime I'd like > > > to know if this small fix fixes the NFS problems.. Now that the kernel > > > mailing list seems to work well again, maybe we can use it for what it was > > > meant for. > > > > Master, > > > > it seems to work. I had no more hangs with amd, but I could not > > deterministically force a hang before, therefore "seems". But I've tried > > hard (with run-parts /etc/cron.daily, this used to hang the automounter). > > A very reliable way to hang amd is to use elm for reading mail on > a automounted /var/spool/mail/. Start elm, then let it sit around > idle for some time. Amd then tried to unmount the fs and NFS hangs. > > Ralf >
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