From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [autofs] Server/client mismatch over status of a
	mount ...
Date: 19 Feb 2003 19:20:16 -0800
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On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:16, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ion Badulescu wrote:
> > Isn't autofs v4 supposed to fix this? I remember Jeremy mentioning that
> > the filesystem would lock all accesses to a dentry scheduled to be 
> > unmounted until the daemon replied to the request.
> > 
> 
> That's fine and dandy, but you would have to atomically lock *all* 
> dentries belonging to the subtree, which I suspect (but don't know for 
> sure) is impossible.

I seem to have missed the rest of this thread.  What's the context?
        
        J



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