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SubjectRe: autofs deadlock
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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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