Messages in this thread |  | | From | Systemkennung Linux <> | Subject | Re: patch-2.0.1[67] kills automount daemon (Berkeley amd) | Date | Thu, 5 Sep 1996 20:33:17 +0200 (MET DST) |
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> > 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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