> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:13:10 -0400 Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:31:26 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/
> > >
> > > - I've been largely avoiding applying anything since rc8-mm2 in an
> > > attempt to stabilise things for the 2.6.23 merge.
> >
> > Between rc8-mm2 and 2.6.23-mm1, autofs stopped working in the
> > -mm kernel.
> >
> > Instead of mounting my home directory, I get these messages in
> > /var/log/messages:
> >
> > Oct 20 00:38:52 kenny automount[2293]: cache_readlock: mapent cache
> > rwlock lock failed
> > Oct 20 00:38:52 kenny automount[2293]: unexpected pthreads error:
> > 11 at 65 in cache.c
> >
> > I am not sure if this is due to autofs changes or changes in some
> > other code that was merged. If you can think of any suspicious
> > change that I should test, please let me know.
>
> I don't think anything changed in autofs in that period. I'd be
> suspecting the r-o-bind-mounts patches, but they didn't change much
> in that time either.
>
> Does current mainline work OK? If so, pretty much the only thing in
> that area left unmerged is r-o-bind-mounts and hch's exportfs stuff.
