Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: autofs deadlock | Date | 29 Aug 1999 06:29:15 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908281141220.604-100000@condor.foo> By author: Tim Ricketts <tr@oxlug.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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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